Adam's suggestions

Author: StanFromIreland

Doc/whatsnew/3.14.rst

@@ -1310,10 +1310,8 @@ Build changes
 * GNU Autoconf 2.72 is now required to generate :file:`configure`.
   (Contributed by Erlend Aasland in :gh:`115765`.)
 
-* zlib is now officially required to build CPython.
-  It is still technically possible to build CPython without it for special needs, like bootstrapping.
-  Such builds are not supported, but we can accept pull requests to keep them working.
-  As an exception, zlib is not required on WASI.
+* zlib is now required to build CPytho on all platforms except WASI.
+  For more information see :pep:`775`.
   (Contributed by Stan Ulbrych and Gregory P. Smith in :gh:`91246`.)
 
 .. _whatsnew314-pep761:

Lib/shutil.py

@@ -1113,12 +1113,11 @@ def _make_zipfile(base_name, base_dir, verbose=0, dry_run=0,
 _ARCHIVE_FORMATS = {
     'tar':   (_make_tarball, [('compress', None)],
               "uncompressed tar file"),
+    'gztar': (_make_tarball, [('compress', 'gzip')],
+              "gzip'ed tar-file"),
+    'zip': (_make_zipfile, [], "ZIP file")
 }
 
-_ARCHIVE_FORMATS['gztar'] = (_make_tarball, [('compress', 'gzip')],
-                            "gzip'ed tar-file")
-_ARCHIVE_FORMATS['zip'] = (_make_zipfile, [], "ZIP file")
-
 if _BZ2_SUPPORTED:
     _ARCHIVE_FORMATS['bztar'] = (_make_tarball, [('compress', 'bzip2')],
                                 "bzip2'ed tar-file")

Lib/test/test_zlib.py

@@ -1,13 +1,12 @@
 import unittest
 from test import support
-from test.support import import_helper
 import binascii
 import copy
 import pickle
 import random
 import sys
-from test.support import bigmemtest, _1G, _4G, is_s390x
 import importlib
+from test.support import bigmemtest, _1G, _4G, is_s390x
 
 # Building CPython without zlib is not supported except WASI.
 #

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Build/2025-02-19-00-00-00.gh-issue-91246.ahsgd3.rst

@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
-Make zlib required to build CPython with the exception of WASI.
-(Contributed by Stan Ulbrych in :gh:`130297`.)
+Make zlib required to build CPython with the exception of WASI implementing :pep:`775`.
+(Contributed by Stan Ulbrych and Gregory P. Smith in :gh:`130297`.)