Removal of zlib, take 2.

Jeremy Allison jra at samba.org
Wed Jul 16 10:12:30 MDT 2014


On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 12:20:11PM +0200, Stefan (metze) Metzmacher wrote:
> Hi Ira,
> 
> >> 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?
> 
> Sorry, but you get a clear NACK from me until this is fully resolved
> by making zlib optional or updating our copy.

Updating our own copies of third party libraries is
the wrong thing to do. We don't maintain these, and
we need to treat them as upstream.


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