Re: [Mingw-users] RELEASE: zlib-1.2.8-1

[Sebastian S. <ssc...@gm...>]

On 07.09.2013 14:39, Sebastian Schuberth wrote:

>> I am please to announce the release of zlib-1.2.8-1.  This release
>> does not deliver the minizip set of packages and are considered
>> obsolete.  You should remove the mnizip-1.2.7 and libminizip-1.2.7
>> packages if you have them installed.  The zlib package has also become
>> a Base Library package with this release since the up and coming
>> releases of binutils and gcc will require it.
>
> With this I get:
>
> $ mingw-get install mingw32-libz
> mingw-get.exe: *** ERROR *** zlib-1.2.8-1-mingw32-dev.tar.lzma: requires...
> mingw-get.exe: *** ERROR *** please report this to the package maintainer
>
> I get the same when trying to install "mingw32-zlib" instead, with both mingw-get 0.5 and 0.6. Is there any log being written where I could see the rest of the "requires..." error message?

Please find attached a patch to fix this.

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Sebastian Schuberth