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I'm interested in hearing more about the history behind Debian and zlib! I did some searching and the closest thing I could find was a nod to the same incident in the Upstream Guide[0]. Do you know of a place where I could read more about it?

[0]: https://wiki.debian.org/UpstreamGuide#No_inclusion_of_third_...

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It's been so long ago, that it's hard to find all the discussions I had seen back then. I recall that it was after a long time without any zlib release, so looking at the zlib history, I think it was this one fixed in zlib 1.1.4 from 11 March 2002: http://www.zlib.org/advisory-2002-03-11.txt

Looking at the debian-devel archives around that date, I found a Debian developer complaining about the vendored zlib copies (https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2002/03/msg00716.html), but not the full discussion about getting rid of vendored libraries, so it must have happened elsewhere.

Thanks for taking the time these references up for me!

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