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Re: removal of glpng and switching chromium-bsu to sdl-image



On Sun, 2010-09-05 at 10:07 +0800, Paul Wise wrote:
> It was recently discovered that glpng has some security issues
> (CVE-2010-1519/#595171). libglpng has one reverse dependency
> (chromium-bsu) that can use SDL_image as an alternative image loading
> backend. Moritz of the security team felt removing the libglpng
> library from Debian would be a good idea. Would the release team
> accept an upload of chromium-bsu to replace the libglpng-dev
> build-dependency with libsdl-image1.2-dev?

This was ACKed on IRC by Julien, and the upload has now taken place.
It's built everywhere, and I've just unblocked it.

Regards,

Adam


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