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Re: Backporting zlib 1.2.11 to Stretch



On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 10:43:58AM +0200, Michael Banck wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 09:57:30AM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote:

> > I stumbled upon some software (spoa [1]) which obviously does not build
> > with zlib 1.2.8 (just tried building in stretch - works with a
> > backported zlib from testing).  

> That seems to be due to bioparser using the new zlib features from
> 1.2.11.

> Maybe it is easier to adapt bioparse to the 1.2.8 zlib interface than
> backporting this pretty central library?

It's a pretty stable library so there's not *huge* concerns with
backporting it, though obviously it'd still be a pretty big change to
pull onto people's systems which they might not be enthused about.

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