Re: Unable to properly maintain my packages due to png troubles
On Sun, 1 Sep 2002 11:53:34 +0200
Davide Puricelli <evo@debian.org> wrote:
> 1) why Steve didn't send a new message to all the G1 maintainers, asking
> them to ignore his previous email and to use imlib+png2?
Because imlib+png2 didn't happen when he sent the mail at first.
> 2) which imlib packages should I use to be able to build both G1 and G2
> packages? At the moment I have:
> gdk-imlib1
> gdk-imlib1-dev
> gdk-imlib2
> imlib-base
> imlib-progs
> imlib1
> imlib1-dev
> imlib2
G1 packages should be built with png2 packages,
G2 packages should be built with png3 packages.
I have requested maintainers to make them Depends: on libpng2-dev
and libpng3-dev so that it gets obvious, but they failed to
heed my request.
> 3) the most important question: libpng will be fixed to be able to
> install both libpng2-dev and libpng3-dev at the same time?
My decision is to make it Never happen, so that applications
cannot be satisfied its build-dependency if such cases happen
where libpng2 and libpng3 are going to be linked at the same time.
However, that has not happened.
regards,
junichi
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