On Fri, Apr 18, 2003 at 10:10:54PM -0500, Chris Cheney wrote: > Why not simply make a imlib1p that conflicts with old imlib1 and rebuild > the remaining 11 sources that still use imlib1 with old libpng2? There > are fewer that would cause trouble in that batch, afaict only: chameleon, > ebview, endeavour, pixelize, vertex. > chameleon - dead upstream. (no website anymore) > ebview - no idea since its japanese. > endeavour - might work with gtk2? upstream is alive. > pixelize - dead upstream. (last release 2000-01-17) > vertex - might work with gtk2? upstream is alive. > kdegraphics requires being able to link to imlib with png3 to work due > to png symbol collisions. > Why aren't we working to get rid of libpng2 anyway, libpng3 isn't even > current anymore. png3 and png12-0 are supposed to be completely compatible; the choice of one over the other is upstream insanity instigated by Red Hat. So while working to get rid of png2 is probably a good idea, forcing png3-using packages to rebuild against png12-0 is not. > Sources > ------- > libpng2 - 134 > libpng3 - 23 > libpng12-0 - 185 -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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