Matt Dowle <mattjdo...@gmail.com> wrote: > Theo, > > > Instead, we got pages and pages that summarize to "must > update", and doesn't explain what the bug is or what the fix is. > > > If only we had an explanation of what is actually wrong and needs fixing > > We know it was this news item from 1.2.3.1 (released 16 August 2006) > https://zlib.net/ChangeLog.txt : > - Take into account wrapper variations in deflateBound() > but I don't know which commit that was.
I don't know either. That is what I am asking. But you don't know and keep repeating: > Yes it would be appreciated if OpenBSD upgraded to zlib 1.2.11 which at 4 > years old > seems reasonably old. Using a 16-year old version of a library such as zlib, > however, > seems too old to me: at that age it's starting to become unreasonable to > expect other > open-source maintainers such as myself to support. Yes, you keep saying we should just throw the new code in, and you keep not explaining what the actual problem is. It is NOT 16 years old. You keep saying that. There is a different development process involved here which has upsides and downsides and which I don't expect you will understand.
