[Zlib-devel] zlib 1.2.3.6 available for testing

[Enrico Weigelt]

Mark Adler wrote:

> If you define OLD_GZIO, then the old gz* functions in gzio.c are 
> used. Otherwise, the new gz* functions are used.  My plan is to
> remove gzio.c for the 1.2.4 release.

Ok.

> In other news, the author of libxml will be immediately applying
> and pushing a patch to fix the problem.

Great. Please keep us informed if you hear anything new on that.
I'll care of the gentoo front ;-)

BTW: please have a look at these bugs - are they still valid ?

http://bugs.gentoo.org/123571
http://bugs.gentoo.org/288212

> We will be left with the problem that if zlib is updated to 1.2.4 
> on a system, but libxml is not updated (where both are linked
> dynamically, which is usually the case), then libxml will crash.
> On the other hand, this will be detected pretty quickly, prompting
> an update to libxml.

Yep. Distro maintainers really should add conflict rules, if their
package managers support it.

Really a bad situation, but actually, libxml's fault ;-p


cu
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