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

peter green plugwash at p10link.net
Mon Dec 6 15:09:20 GMT 2021


> 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



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