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Re: Abiword 0.7.6-1 and libpng



On Sat, Nov 13, 1999 at 11:02:31AM +1100, Herbert Xu wrote:
> Darren O. Benham <gecko@debian.org> wrote:
> >
> > Abiword v0.7.6-1 was compiled against libpng v1.0.3.  This version of
> > abiword will segfault after you upgrade libpng to 1.0.5 (already in
> > potato's archive).  I've alrady uploaded into inciming abiword 0.7.6-2 that
> > is compiled against libpng v1.0.5.
> 
> If it's an ABI change in libpng 1.0.5 (as opposed to a bug in Abiword), file a
> bug report against libpng because the package name should be changed so that it
> does not satisfy a dependency that it doesn't actually provide.
> 
Why?  I hate gratuitious package name changes and I think SOME people mess
around with their packages (changing names, splitting, joining, etc) way to
much.


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