Proposal to remove zlib from the Samba tree.

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Sun, 2014-06-29 at 17:14 +0200, Julien Kerihuel wrote:
> On 29/06/14 10:19, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> > On Sat, 2014-06-28 at 08:37 +0100, jelmer at samba.org wrote:
> >> I like the idea of removing it and always using the system zlib. 
> >>
> >> Please make sure that the build farm hosts all have zlib installed in a way that Samba can use it.
> > It would be very useful to know what systems don't have (and can't
> > reasonably get) the needed version of zlib on them, to understand the
> > best approach here.
> >
> > While zlib is 'only' needed for NDR_COMPRESSION, that is in turn used
> > for DRSUAPI, which is used in the source3 client as part of net rpc
> > samsync, so it isn't easily made an optional dependency. 
> It is also intensively used in openchange server and mapiproxy to
> decompress MAPI buffers in Outlook client requests. If the dependency is
> made optional, then we are going to make the life of users building the
> samba+openchange stack from sources more difficult while we are aiming
> at smooth, nice and out of the box integration with samba.

Is that used via Samba, or directly?  I wasn't able to see use of the
NDR compression routines in openchange.

It still is a public ABI that we would be breaking, so we would have to
also not install libndr (because some other package might use it), but
it would be very helpful for you to confirm if this would specifically
break openchange.

Andrew Bartlett

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