zlib is a library implementing the deflate compression method found in gzip and PKZIP. This package includes the shared library.
zlib is designed to be a free, general-purpose, legally unencumbered, lossless data-compression library for use on virtually any computer hardware and operating system. The zlib data format is itself portable across platforms. Unlike the LZW compression method used in Unix compress(1), the compression method currently used in zlib essentially never expands the data. (LZW can double or triple the file size in extreme cases.) zlib's memory footprint is also independent of the input data and can be reduced, if necessary, at some cost in compression
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1.2 series is the current focus of development.
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zlib source package in Xenial
Version 1:1.2.8.dfsg-2ubuntu4.3 uploaded -
zlib source package in Trusty
Version 1:1.2.8.dfsg-1ubuntu1.1 uploaded -
zlib source package in Squeeze
Version 1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 uploaded -
zlib source package in Sid
Version 1:1.2.13.dfsg-3 uploaded -
zlib source package in Precise
Version 1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3ubuntu4 uploaded
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- Frank Heimes 4 points
