On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 03:13:02PM +0100, Bastien ROUCARIES wrote: > On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 2:55 PM, Mark Brown <[email protected]> wrote:
> > This is not the same issue as the code duplication between the two > > packages, this is requesting support in zlib for compressing things in a > > way that happens to reduce the sizes of binary diffs (which is helpful > > for rsync but not by any means excusive to rsync). > So could I clone this bug report and assign this bug to both three package No. As I said above the code duplication is completely unrelated. > >> According to ?http://fedora.danny.cz/rsync/rsync-zlib-1.2.3.diff the diff > >> between rsync and old upstream of zlib is pretty small > > I'm not 100% clear what that patch is supposed to do but the > > overwhelming bulk of it is coding style changes that will have no > > functional effect plus a reference to a header file which is not > > included in the diff. > The only difference of the bunded zlib on rsync and zlib i the > Z_INSERT_ONLY mode .... Only a few lines, other is duplication of the > whole lib I don't think you've fully understood the functional impact of the changes, nor the use of the rsync header file. In any case, like I say the bulk of the changes are noop stylistic changes which shouldn't be wrapped in with functional changes. Please take this up with the relevant upstreams if you want to address this, Debian is not the place to make such changes. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
