[Bug 37578] Request for Enhancement: please add zlib as a dependency

[wine-bugs at winehq.org]

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=37578

Dmitry Timoshkov <dmitry at baikal.ru> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|UNCONFIRMED                 |RESOLVED
         Resolution|---                         |INVALID

--- Comment #3 from Dmitry Timoshkov <dmitry at baikal.ru> ---
(In reply to Todd Chester from comment #0)
> So I reported it to Red Hat on:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1162842
> 
> Their response was:
>       You were probably not able to install libpng without zlib, but of 
>       course you were able to install libpng and libpng-devel without
>       zlib-devel - but this is pretty much expected. Guidelines are 
>       even stricter, explicit requirements for library packages are 
>       forbidden (
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Explicit_Requires
>       - Red Hat Enterprise Linux follows Fedora packaging guidelines
>       with just very few exceptions ).
> 
> So, would you guys please consider putting the dependency in yourself, so as
> to keep the next poor sod who is trying to ./configure wine from going out
> of his mind and to keep you guys from having to endlessly answer this
> question over on the forums

zlib is a libpng dependency, not a Wine one. If Red Hat developers consider
that as not a bug, that's not a bug for Wine either way.

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