Re: GNOME 1 ABI involving libpng

["Marcelo E. Magallon" <mmagallo@debian.org>]

>> "J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)" <dm@zensunni.demon.nl> writes:

 > Those packages require only small changes to use it, mainly:
 > - change "Build-Depends: libpng2-dev" to "Build-Depends: libpng2-altdev"
 > - include png(conf).h from /usr/include/png2 rather than /usr/include
 > - link "-lpng2" rather than "-lpng"

 That is IMHO an acceptable solution and it's very easy to implement in
 the case of GNOME 1/GTK+ 1.x; you only need to patch the relevant
 foo-config scripts.

 > --- libpng-1.0.12.old/debian/shlibs	2002-08-28 11:38:01.000000000 +0200
 > +++ libpng-1.0.12/debian/shlibs	2002-08-28 11:48:40.000000000 +0200
 > @@ -1 +1,2 @@
 >  libpng	2	libpng2 (>=1.0.12)
 > +libpng2	2	libpng2 (>=1.0.12)

 Not needed.  The SONAME is still libpng.so.2.

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