Removal of zlib, take 2.

Jeremy Allison jra at samba.org
Wed Jul 16 10:10:15 MDT 2014


On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 10:59:06PM +1200, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> On Wed, 2014-07-16 at 06:12 -0400, Ira Cooper wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 4:07 PM, Jelmer Vernooij <jelmer at samba.org> wrote:
> > 
> > > On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 03:56:25PM -0400, Ira Cooper wrote:
> > > > On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 12:07 PM, Jelmer Vernooij <jelmer at samba.org>
> > > wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 11:58:03AM -0400, Ira Cooper wrote:
> > > > > > Code for review is at:
> > > > > >
> > > http://git.samba.org/?p=ira/wip.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/zlib_removal
> > > > > >
> > > > > > This is the "remove zlib, and break all systems without zlib"
> > > version.
> > > > I refreshed the branch, check the new check.
> > > The checks in the current branch look reasonable to me.
> > >
> > >
> > Can I get a final review on this to get it pushed?
> 
> Certainly not until we also discuss the WHY rather than just the WHAT,

They WHY is completely obvious. We DO NOT MAINTAIN THESE LIBRARIES.
They are upstream, and we need to treat them that way. Pulling in
and shipping cruft we dont' update and don't maintain has to stop.


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