Plans for "deb" packages compressed in zstd

Reading the phoronix site today and the huge speed increase of Arch packages moving to zstd, I remembered that an Ubuntu developer, some time ago had proposed zstd compression for the “deb” packages, there are still plans to have ZSTD?

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=892664

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It appears that Fedora and openSUSE also want to switch to zstd