Re: Bug#155689: libgtk2.0-png3: -png3 should Provides: libgtk2.0-0
On Fri, 2002-08-09 at 21:53, Akira TAGOH wrote:
> this answer was described in the above. for example, if a
> commercial program as you says links GTK+2.0 and libpng2
> *directly*, (and if it is provided as package, then if
> libgtk2.0-0png3 provides libgtk2.0-0), it won't works
> correctly. anyway those programs needs to be rebuilt.
I still have not seen any good reason to do this, other than "libpng3 is
the future" and "other distributions do this." Admittedly the latter is
not a bad reason.
I would be satisfied if a new release of libgtk2.0 was released
upstream, *requiring* libpng3, and incrementing the soname, so we could
have libgtk2.0-0 linked against libpng2 and libgtk2.0-1 linked against
libpng3. Is this a possibility? (It's only worthwhile if the new version
of gtk *requires* libpng3.)
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Joe Drew <hoserhead@woot.net> <drew@debian.org>
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