[Pkg-rust-maintainers] librust-libz-sys+zlib-ng-dev, extracting zlib-ng

[nick black]

peter green left as an exercise for the reader:
> > i'm interested in using zlib-ng from some C code in debian. it's
> > not packaged, but i notice that librust-libz-sys+zlib-ng-dev
> > *is* present. is this wrapping the zlib-ng c library? it seems
> > like it is, looking at [0]. assuming this to be correct, would
> > there be interest in unvendoring it from the rust team? how
> > ought we proceed? thanks!
> 
> While that "feature package" is present, it isn't actually
> functional because the zlib-ng sources are stripped out of
> the debian rust-libz-sys
> 
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=972361

gotcha. were i to then package up zlib-ng, would this package be
in a position to use the system package, and thus be useful?

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