Re: please unblock libpng 1.2.15~beta5-0
- To: "Nelson A. de Oliveira" <naoliv@debian.org>
- Cc: debian-release@lists.debian.org, Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org>, Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>, Aníbal Monsalve Salazar <anibal@debian.org>, Andreas Barth <aba@not.so.argh.org>
- Subject: Re: please unblock libpng 1.2.15~beta5-0
- From: Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org>
- Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2006 20:04:30 +0100
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On Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at 04:19:51PM -0200, Nelson A. de Oliveira <naoliv@debian.org> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> It looks like that we will get libpng 1.2.8 back to Etch, right?
> But one of my packages (optipng) needs at least libpng 1.2.9 (it needs
> png_get_uint_32 and png_save_uint_32).
>
> When version 1.2.8 gets uploaded, probably optipng will FTBFS and I will
> upload a new version statically linked against it's own libpng (version
> 1.2.12), we will have another copy of libpng on the archive, the
> security team will have to support libpng 1.2.8 (Etch's default) and my
> copy of libpng (that just my package will use), I will have to listen to
> a lot of people saying "Why do you link statically?", then I will have
> to (try to) explain, etc etc etc.
>
> Do you have a better idea than statically linking against libpng?
Add png_get_uint_32 and png_save_uint_32 to optipng and link against
libpng 1.2.8 ?
Mike
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