Debian Bug report logs - #1002056
ITP: zlib-ng -- optimized zlib compression library

Package: wnpp; Maintainer for wnpp is [email protected];

Reported by: Guillem Jover <[email protected]>

Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2021 03:48:02 UTC

Owned by: Guillem Jover <[email protected]>

Severity: wishlist

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On Wed, Sep 25, 2024 at 01:55:17AM +0200, Guillem Jover wrote:

> The problem though is, that because the compressed stream is going to
> change, that can make certain test suites fail if we perform this
> switch, which I think would be the main fallout that we'd see from
> this and would need manual fixing, although I assume Fedora has probably
> handled most of these already. For example when I added explicit
> zlib-ng support to dpkg, I had to fix its test suite to parametrize
> sizes for test artifacts.

I guess this is also a risk for zlib upgrades, seems a bit fragile.

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