On Mon, May 12, 2003 at 11:31:54AM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le sam 10/05/2003 à 18:06, Marcelo E. Magallon a écrit : > > I'm not arguing against this, I'm just wondering how much time we > > should invest in something which doesn't seem to be _that_ well > > defined. > And given the lack of interest in testing this compatibility, I'm > beginning to wonder who's really interested in it. > If some other distributions link gdk-imlib with libpng3, binary > compatibility with them on these applications is a dream. We could > rebuild everything against libpng3, but that means changing the GTK+ and > gdk-imlib package names, and rebuilding hundreds of applications for a > questionable gain. Since this particular problem will go away with the next upstream release of libpng (which will implement "versioned symbols"), it does seem like questionable gain, yes. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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