For simplicity, we bundle all of zLib and Snappy compression libraries, including their tests and binary test data, in subdirectories of the libmongoc source tree. This causes a problem when packaging libmongoc for Debian, however: We want to omit those files from the Debian package, but the Debian patch-queue tool we use, "quilt", doesn't seem able to represent the deletion of a binary file as a patch.
To work around this, just delete the unused binary data files from libmongoc's source.