Bug#317976: rsync: Uses local copy of zlib

2005-07-13 Thread Paul Slootman
On Wed 13 Jul 2005, Mark Brown wrote: On Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 08:21:46PM +0200, Paul Slootman wrote: Please, *please* look at existing bugs before sending in a bug report. E.g. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=32379 I did look at the existing reports, and that (and the

Bug#317976: rsync: Uses local copy of zlib

2005-07-13 Thread Mark Brown
On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 09:54:26AM +0200, Paul Slootman wrote: It would be nice if rsync linked against the shared zlib instead of linking in its own static copy. This to me implies that that bug report is also concerned about rsync using its own (static) copy of zlib... Static linking and

Bug#317976: rsync: Uses local copy of zlib

2005-07-13 Thread Paul Slootman
On Wed 13 Jul 2005, Mark Brown wrote: On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 09:54:26AM +0200, Paul Slootman wrote: It would be nice if rsync linked against the shared zlib instead of linking in its own static copy. This to me implies that that bug report is also concerned about rsync using its own

Bug#317976: rsync: Uses local copy of zlib

2005-07-12 Thread Mark Brown
Package: rsync Version: 2.6.5-1 Severity: important The upstream rsync package includes a copy of zlib and unconditionally uses it during the build. This means that any security updates to zlib need to be independantly applied to this package. Ideally the configure script should detect if zlib