[arch-dev-public] rsync & bundled zlib

Lukas Fleischer lfleischer at archlinux.org
Mon Jan 13 16:28:12 UTC 2020


+1 to using system zlib. One minor remark on the news draft below.

On Mon, 13 Jan 2020 at 17:23:00, Christian Hesse wrote:
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> rsync compatibility
> 
> Our `rsync` package was shipped with bundled `zlib` to provide compatibility
> with old-style `--compress` option up to version 3.1.0. Version 3.1.1 was

Missing "the" before "old-style"?

> released on 2014-06-22 and is shipped by all major distributions now.
> 
> So we decided to finally drop the bundled library and ship a package with
> system `zlib`. Go and blame those running old versions if you encounter
> errors with `rsync 3.1.3-3`.
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Looks good to me otherwise, thanks!


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