On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 3:38 PM, Dmitrijs Ledkovs <dmitrij.led...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm not a Debian Developer but I've met this one with one of my > "upstreams" as well. The reasoning is very vague. My upstream has been > keeping an ancient copy of zlib in their tree/releases just because > it's *easier* for them to build on Windows. I did the crude way simply > purged the library and tried building. It worked =D Yuck, if the embedded copy of zlib is older than 2005, please get them to upgrade to a newer version since there have been 4 security issues (denial of service, arbitrary code execution) since then: http://security-tracker.debian.net/tracker/source-package/zlib Maybe this will help convince them to update it more often or split it out so it is easy to update. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org