libcompress-zlib-perl 2.015-1 (armel binary) in ubuntu karmic

 Compress::Zlib is a Perl external module which provides an interface to
 the info-zip zlib compression library. zlib is a general purpose
 compression library.
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 Some of the features provided by Compress::Zlib include:
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    * in-memory compression and decompression
    * read and write gzip (.gz) files directly.
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 See also: libio-compress-zlib-perl