[Pkg-clamav-devel] Verbatim copy of zlib code in libclamav

Michael Tautschnig mt at debian.org
Mon Mar 16 08:34:03 UTC 2009


Hi all,

(thread was started on pkg-clamav-devel)

> 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.
> 

Is it acceptable to override the lintian error in this case?

Thanks,
Michael

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