Re: libpng 1.0 upcoming removal
- To: Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org>
- Cc: Uwe Hermann <uwe@debian.org>, Thorsten Sauter <tsauter@debian.org>, "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>, Theodore Karkoulis <bilbo@debian.org>, Sven Velt <sven@velt.de>, Sven Luther <luther@debian.org>, "Steve M. Robbins" <smr@debian.org>, Steve Dunham <dunham@debian.org>, Stephen Zander <gibreel@debian.org>, Sebastien Bacher <seb128@debian.org>, Ryan Murray <rmurray@debian.org>, Ron Lee <ron@debian.org>, Phil Blundell <pb@debian.org>, Peter Palfrader <weasel@debian.org>, Mark Baker <mbaker@iee.org>, Lionel Elie Mamane <lionel@mamane.lu>, John Goerzen <jgoerzen@complete.org>, Jan-Hendrik Palic <jan.palic@linux-debian.de>, "James R. Van Zandt" <jrv@debian.org>, Eduard Bloch <blade@debian.org>, Debian GNOME Maintainers <pkg-gnome-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org>, Daniel Franklin <d.franklin@ieee.org>, Andrew Lau <netsnipe@users.sourceforge.net>, Alan Bain <afrb2@debian.org>, akira yamada <akira@debian.org>, debian-ocaml-maint@lists.debian.org
- Subject: Re: libpng 1.0 upcoming removal
- From: Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>
- Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2005 18:03:25 +0200
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On Thu, Jun 09, 2005 at 10:32:19PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> Hi,
>
> the libpng 1.0 packages will be removed from Debian before the etch
> release. This should be painless and independent from other transitions,
> so you can do it at any time. Of course, the sooner the better.
>
> If you're receiving this mail, you have one or several packages
> depending on libpng2 or libpng10-0. Please rebuild them against the
That is all well and nice, but it would have been really helpfull if you had
included a list of these packages too :) You obviously have that list already,
since you got my email address from it :)
(Not snapping at you in particular, but this seems to be a common failing of
people doing this kind of mail reminders, and in this age of automatic
dependencies, and huge set of co-maintained pakages, ...)
> libpng 1.2 packages. If your package is using GTK+, Qt, SDL or another
> toolkit using libpng, please make it build-depend on libpng12-dev.
> Otherwise, you can make it build-depend on libpng-dev.
Bah this probably means camlimages or something, not sure. but maybe others
too.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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