Michael Tautschnig wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> In libclamav/inflate64.c now there is code that is in parts a verbatim copy of
> zlib's code. It contains the proper copyright and attribution information, but
> lintian and possibly also the security team gets mad at us because of the
> verbatim copy of zlib code. Now of course it is modified as deemed necessary 
> to
> serve their purpose, and as such we cannot get rid of it. Is it ok to just 
> add a
> lintian override?


Hi Michael,
unfortunately I think there's no other way around that.
Upstream's not interesed in the needed hacks, and for a reason, and
fiddling with the interal status of the zlib state machine makes it a
nightmare to maintain across zlib versions.
In the end decision was to ship the hacked zlib.

-acab

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