Comment 27 for bug 1961427

Thx Ilya, restarted to work on this by adding updated bedtools to the PPA ...
Interestingly bedtools version 2.27.1+dfsg from focal does not have htslib bundled:
$ ls -l src/utils/h*
ls: cannot access 'src/utils/h*': No such file or directory
$ ls src/utils/
BamTools bedGraphFile Contexts fileType KeyListOps RecordOutputMgr ToolBase
BamTools-Ancillary BinTree driver general lineFileUtilities sequenceUtilities VectorOps
bedFile BlockedIntervals Fasta GenomeFile NewChromsweep stringUtilities version
bedFilePE chromsweep FileRecordTools gzstream Point tabFile
and I cannot find any reference to htslib in that particular package version.

Ilya, on which Ubuntu release did you test (LP comment #26)?
I assume it was not 20.04, but probably jammy/22.04?
So would you mind testing the patched zlib package 1.2.11.dfsg-2ubuntu1.3 again in focal ?
Things are definitely different these and with the missing reference to htslib I think there is a chance that it might work there w/o touching bedtools. - Thx