Bug#708240: qtiplot FTBFS with new minizip.c

[Andreas Tille]

Hi,

On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 04:49:19PM -0400, Scott Howard wrote:
> The minizip.c that ships with the new version of zlib has changed
> significantly and is no longer compatible with what qtiplot uses.
> 
> We can now just use minizip.c that comes with qtiplot
> 
> (todo: include the license in debian/copyright, drop the build
> dependency on zlib, fix get-orig-source rule to not exclude it in the
> future, drop part of patch that looks for minizip in working
> directory)

While it is a shame that minizip has become incompatible isn't your
suggestion a step backwards?  Has anybody checked how heavy the needed
changes to qtiplot would be to work with new minizip?
 
Kind regards

         Andreas.

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