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Re: Abiword 0.7.6-1 and libpng



Joel Klecker <jk@espy.org> wrote:
> 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.

If you read my original message, you would've found that I'm in agreement with
you on this one.  It's only a problem for libpng if Abiword crashed due to a
change in its published ABI.
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