Hi, as said by -release team, the open transition are ending, and this opens a slot for libPNG. the work is already done, we just need to upload on experimental, wait some little time, and pull the trigger (yes, after an ack :) ) I did some little rework of the package, in bug #813027 (fixing lintian errors, and some rules refactoring). I would like to NMU it for experimental, with providing a *real* libpng-dev package. this will ensure next transition will be handled better, and should make this transition even faster. (and versioned depends are a good thing for libpng). So, timeframe is: 1) provide a real libpng-dev and upload on experimental in 7 days starting now. (I'm going to upload on deferred/7 in a few minutes/hours) 2) do some testing and fix possible issues. 3) wait for -release team 4) go for unstable. If I understand correctly, a real package will avoid an upload of the old libpng12 that has a simple "Provides". Let me know if it sounds good to you! Stretch is going to freeze in some months, and I don't want to be in a hurry, or have the next stable with libpng12. the work is done, doing it again will be a waste of everybody's time. cheers, G.
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