Re: upstream abandoning libpng12
On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 08:29:43PM +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-07-23 at 12:13 -0500, Raphael Geissert wrote:
> > Switching to libpng 1.4.x for squeeze would require a transition.
>
> You missed the words "rather large" out of the above sentence.
>
> Assuming that I can count, there are 580 source packages in the archive
> building a binary package which depends on libpng12. The archive
> contains approximately 15,500 source packages, meaning a libpng
> transition would involve nearly 4% of them.
I don't think we need the PNG transition. We can backport as usual
and PNG issues are not as frequent as in previous years anymore.
Cheers,
Moritz
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