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PR converted from draft. `buildkite/julia-master — Build #17849 is failing `

For reference on the code block added to contrib/README.md. [EPEL Packaging](https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/epel/epel-packaging/) Icon Cache Other package formats, the above refers to .rpm, may have a different approach.

It doesn't seem correct that releases should include buttons. The 1st link I provided when opened in a browser tab returns the following. Not Found

julia-1.8.2-linux-x86_64.tar.gz In this release likewise the hyperlink on the button is to an online page's section. `https://github.com/JuliaLang/Statistics-61a021bcb330e6c52f2435f2abaffc77875ab6f2/src/Statistics.jl#L422-L448` And the link when opened in a browser tab returns the following. Not...

> 1.9-dev looks fine. on the 1,9-dev Statistics [page](https://docs.julialang.org/en/v1.9-dev/stdlib/Statistics/) the button's [hyperlink](https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/blob/7212c03ae820ec885dd40a7ac1fc4859e0d187f3/usr/share/julia/stdlib/v1.9/Statistics/src/Statistics.jl#L422-L448) when opened in a browser tab returns a 404 therefore my suggestion is to not include the buttons...

FWIW, updated files for VS2017. https://github.com/vaerksted/zlib

Hunt/Vollant as contrib directory contents changed in 1.2.12 it might seem justifiable to add a vc17 directory (Visual Studio 2022) best to leave vc14 as is for building legacy zlib...

`contrib/vstudio` files updated for Visual Studio 2022 would go in a `contrib/vstudio/vc17` directory you opened a PR but therein provided no link to this current PR

Purportedly, and this wasn't mentioned in your linked to PR, Visual Studio 2010 was the last version to support Itanium. > why I did vc143 that's wrong ``` $ grep...

1. An Issue should be opened requesting the addition of ARM and ARM64 support; if approved by the zlib developers an associated Pull Request could then be opened 2. An...