Hi all,

I intend to remove minizip from the zlib package and replace it with a more maintained fork [1][2]. To preserve backwards compatibility and ease the transition on maintainers of dependent packages, the idea is to provide minizip-compat and minizip-compat-devel packages in the zlib minizip package first.

Therefore, I would like to ask all maintainers of the packages depending on minizip and/or minizip-devel to update their dependencies to minizip-compat and minizip-compat-devel respectively.

For now this is just a "cosmetic" change without any breakages. However, when all related packages will require minizip-compat I will build the new minizip package with a soname bump.

Please keep in mind that the minizip-compat package is just a temporary solution to give us some time and should be considered deprecated as soon as I build the new minizip package.

Finally, here's a list of related packages:
chromium
libsbml
mingw-zfstream
mingw-zlib
qt5-qtwebengine
assimp
zfstream
R-Rcompression
gpsbabel
vxl
COPASI
psi
GLC_lib
qmc2
mingw-libkml
libdigidocpp
zipper
libCombine
xu4
blender
libsedml
collada-dom
quazip
psi-plus
vacuum-im
godot
sigil
libnuml
zlib
libkml
fritzing

[1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1615381
[2] https://github.com/nmoinvaz/minizip

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Patrik Novotný

Associate Software Engineer

Red Hat

panovotn@redhat.com