Hello, This is somewhat long. My apologies in advance: A. As I posted on debian-qa earlier, the bugs mentioned in the subject were discussed in png-mng-implement in the following thread. http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=9575058&forum_id=43850 The upstream author of "pngcrush" (Glenn Randers-Pehrson) was party to this discussion. B. Following this upstream has made available a version of pngcrush called pngcrush-<version>-nolib.tar.bz2 that will fix the bug(s) given above. The file is below http://pmt.sf.net/pngcrush with current version 1.6.2. C. The maintainer of pngcrush has not updated the package for a long time and there are a number of grave bugs open on the package. Mails to the maintainer (in Dec 2005, Jan 2006) have not evoked any response. D. A PNG optimizer similar called "optipng" which is similar in function (but not in design) to "pngcrush" has recently entered etch. E. I have prepared a "pngcrush" package based on pngcrush-nolib.tar.gz. I am willing to adopt this package if rules do not permit an NMU for such major changes. http://www.imsc.res.in/~kapil/debian/pngcrush/pngcrush_1.6.2-0.1.dsc http://www.imsc.res.in/~kapil/debian/pngcrush/pngcrush_1.6.2-0.1_i386.changes F. I have tested the resulting binary and compared it with the static-ly linked version based on pngcrush-1.6.2.tar.bz2 from the same source. The result is that the "crush"ing done by the static one is marginally better. G. However, I cannot currently upload. If someone is kind enough to do the upload, I would be grateful. Regards, Kapil. --
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