External zlib patches

[Anthony Petrov]

Hello folks,

Some time ago Diego Pettenò sent out a couple of patches that allow JDK 
use an external zlib library. A number of other fixes from this author 
sent to the awt-dev@ alias depend on the mentioned zlib patches, and 
cannot be easily applied without the zlib-patch applied first.

Could anyone confirm whether the zlib-patches are currently being 
considered to be applied?

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best regards,
Anthony