JabRef 5.8 Release

Thank you for the new release!

I encountered a problem trying to install the debian package (on a Debian 11, bullseye):

dpkg-deb: error: archive 'jabref_5.8_amd64.deb' uses unknown compression for member 'control.tar.zst', giving up
dpkg: error processing archive jabref_5.8_amd64.deb (--install):
 dpkg-deb --control subprocess returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
 jabref_5.8_amd64.deb

I could solve it by repackaging with these set of instructions:

ar x jabref_5.8_amd64.deb
zstd -d < control.tar.zst | xz > control.tar.xz
zstd -d < data.tar.zst | xz > data.tar.xz
ar -m -c -a sdsd jabref_5.8_amd64_repackaged.deb debian-binary control.tar.xz data.tar.xz
rm debian-binary control.tar.* data.tar.*
sudo dpkg -i jabref_5.8_amd64_repackaged.deb

Cheers,

– gooksin

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