status of forked zlibs in rsync and zsync

Rex Dieter rdieter at math.unl.edu
Tue Sep 15 20:10:07 UTC 2009


Toshio Kuratomi wrote:

> This would be great if maintainers were willing to fix issues after the
> fact.  Look at rsync -- there's no incentive to fix the library issue at
> this point because rsync is already in the distribution.  We need to fix
> this lack of incentive for other reasons -- but we need to fix it before
> we start trying to get more packages into the distro with less initial
> quality.

Not good at this point in the release cycle, but... an option is to block it 
from rawhide, until fixed/resolved.  That'll light a fire to make things 
happen surely.

-- Rex





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