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Bug#279551: ITP: zsync -- A client-side implementation of the rsync algorithm



On Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 07:32:02PM +0100, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote:
> One suggestion, this package is claimed to be only alpha by upsteam. It
> also at the moment copies several C files from zlib and rsync, in stead
> of linking to it as library. This poses a security support risk: this
> package would need to get patched on rsync or zlib security updates too,
> something that wouldn't be needed if you dynamically linked to it.

at least the zlib files are not really zlib, but modified, i think the same 
is true for the rsync files, but in generall i am perfectly you opinion that
shared libs should generally be linked as such.

> Rsync comes with a stand alone program to create some kind of index
> files, isn't this also in some way usable for zsync?

i didn't know that, what's it called?

> Anyway, since the author says it's alpha, maybe it's a good idea to
> upload to experimal only while it still matures -- the program didn't
> exist at all yet a month ago. While it works, I don't think zsyncr has
> already a place in a Debian stable release.

definitely, this should not go into testing for a while...

cu  robert

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Robert Lemmen                               http://www.semistable.com 

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