At 12:05 +1100 1999-11-13, Herbert Xu wrote:
This paradigm breaks down when upstream people are ignorant about sonames or are bound by the circumstances (as was the case with lesstif) and change the ABI without changing the soname.
But libpng upstream is neither bound by circumstances nor ignorant about sonames. Thus there's either a bug, or some external factor affected the ABI.
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