Re: upstream abandoning libpng12
Raphael Geissert wrote:
> It appears that libpng upstream is going to abandon libpng12 by the end of
> the year [1]. Luckily, RedHat and others still need to support it for many
> years, meaning we wouldn't be alone when fixing security issues and the
> like.
After a discussion between upstream and some other people...
> UPDATE 6 January 2011:
[...]
> For legacy applications, libpng-1.2.44 and libpng-1.0.54 are also
> available and will only be updated if necessary for security reasons.
> Despite the previous announcement, we will continue to support
> libpng-1.0.x with security bugfixes for the forseeable future.
(it doesn't explicitly say that support for libpng12 won't be dropped soon,
but I believe it wasn't intentional.)
Cheers,
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Raphael Geissert - Debian Developer
www.debian.org - get.debian.net
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