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

Tags: pending

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Subject: Re: Bug#1002056: ITP: zlib-ng -- optimized zlib compression library
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On Tue, Dec 21, 2021 at 04:45:21AM +0100, Guillem Jover wrote:

> instead of with its native API. But if that happens, I think it would
> make sense to upload, as it's currently being embedded in several
> upstream projects and even if dpkg would not switch to it, it would
> still help with removing embedded code copies, and speeding up other
> packages. Or make other RPFs such as #901490 (an alternative fork)
> unnecessary.

The alternative fork is the big issue here - there's several different
zlib projects active which don't seem to be working towards each other
and there's none of them that is clearly going to be the one that will
become the default in future if it's not the original zlib.  We should
just pick a new zlib if we want a new zlib rather than making users go
and figure out which they want.

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