[Zlib-devel] zlib 1.2.3.6 available for testing

[Mark Brown]

On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 01:46:18AM -0800, Mark Adler wrote:

> Yes.  I can use that table to find instances of inflate in application
> code even if the copyright string is removed, and those last two
> elements can be used to determine which version of inflate.

This is also used by Debian, and possibly some other people, to detect
applications and libraries which embed a copy of zlib rather than using
the shared library.