Removal of zlib, take 2.

[Volker Lendecke]

On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 09:10:15AM -0700, Jeremy Allison wrote:
> 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.

That's true. But we are mixing in a dependency on those
libraries into completely unrelated components. THAT has to
stop first. THEN we can talk about removing the internal
copy.

Volker

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