Bug#614345: pu: package libpng/1.2.44-2

[Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>]

On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 11:30:44 -0800, Steve Langasek wrote:

> BTW,
> 
> On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 08:03:12PM +0100, Julien Cristau wrote:
> > (Incidentally, for some reason my system seems to still have a
> > /usr/lib/libpng12.so.0, unknown to dpkg.  Not sure where that comes
> > from.)
> 
> That seems to be courtesy of ldconfig.  If you have libpng-dev installed,
> ldconfig finds .so files in the directory with an soname of 'libpng12.so.0',
> doesn't find a file of that name in the directory, so creates a symlink...
> even though this was already available in /lib.
> 
Ah, thanks.

> I'd say this is misbehavior on the part of ldconfig since there's no need
> for this symlink and no way to get around its creation AFAICS.
> 
In which case the /usr/lib/libpng.so.3 → libpng12.so.0 symlink isn't
actually broken (once ldconfig runs anyway) so this update isn't
necessary?

Cheers,
Julien