gdk-imlib1: possible move of image-loader plugins
Hi,
I'm the debian maintainer for imlib1/gdk-imlib1.
The latter package currently installs "/usr/lib/libgdk_imlib1", along
with a slew of helper plug-ins for loading various image file formats.
The plugins are currently installed as "/usr/lib/libimlib-xpm.so",
etc.
I am considering a change that would install them into
/usr/lib/gdk-imlib1. (Imlib2 has done a similar thing, it appears)
I am writing here to ask whether this would break any software.
The change should not affect any app properly built against gdk-imlib:
libgdk_imlib.so remains in /usr/lib and it knows where to look for the
plugins. The only possible breakage that comes to mind is if someone
mistakenly linked against one of the plugin shared objects. If that
has happened, I'd like to know and correct it before making this
change. I'd also like to hear if I have overlooked something
fundamental.
I am running the modified debs on my system now, with no apparent
breakage yet. However, there are a large number of packages that
depend on gdk-imlib1, so I don't want to make this change lightly.
Regards,
-Steve
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