[robert_foss]

Security + build time isn't the issue, but security + dev/testing time is.

Maintaining a secure package of zlib takes linearly more time with more versions of it used.

All distros are manpower limited.

[Arnavion]

There's only one version of zlib, the distro-packaged version, in the scenario of this discussion.

[CRConrad]

As I read it, that's 100% wrong: Isn't the discussion precisely about using the distro-packaged version vs. having other versions statically linked?