Re: libpng conflict?

[Philippe Troin <phil@fifi.org>]

Shaya Potter <spotter@cs.columbia.edu> writes:

> I seem to be having some serious issues with libpng
> 
> it seems that most of the gnome stuff is linked against libpng2
> 
> but, it seems libgdk-imlib is linked against libpng3
> 
> and this creates an issue as both are being linked into the runtime of
> applicaitons
> 
> $ ldd `which evolution` |grep png
> 	libpng.so.2 => /usr/lib/libpng.so.2 (0x40a5d000)
> 	libpng.so.3 => /usr/lib/libpng.so.3 (0x40f65000)
> 
> which seems to cause some corruption issues.
> 
> is this a bug?

Yes.

Here we go again. Sigh.

I think the best is to get rid of libpng2-dev in sid/unstable and
recompile all the packages that depend on libpng2. That's a huge
volume of packages, but should be brainless.

Phil.


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