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Re: libpng vulnerability, why does gnome2 depend on libpng2 and not libpng3?



On Fri, Jul 19, 2002 at 12:27:36PM +0200, Christof Petig wrote:

> then I decided to do an apt-get install libpng3-dev and the result 
> shocked me
> 
> Note, selecting libpng-dev instead of libpng3-dev
> The following extra packages will be installed:
>   libdirectfb-dev libpng-dev
> The following packages will be REMOVED:
>   clanlib-dev gdk-imlib-dev libbonobo-dev libbonoboui2-dev libcapplet-dev
                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> Is there a reason to stay with the old branch? Or is this due to the lag 
> of the ppc tree?

At the moment, gdk-imlib-dev depends on libpng-dev.  This is actually
a mistake, and will be corrected shortly (this weekend, I hope).
Some of the other removals may stem from depending on gdk-imlib-dev.

-Steve


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