Bug#650601: libpng is going to be NMUed soon.

[Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>]

On 23/03/16 22:23, Gianfranco Costamagna wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>> WDYM with versioned depends?
> 
> 
> as said above:
> "a/ virtual provides can't safisfy versioned dependencies"
> 
> maintainers might be able to do something like "Depends: libpng-dev (>=1.6)".
> This might help future transitions (not from 12 to 16 probably).
> 
> Always if I understand correctly what maintainers might want to do.
> And makes easier to pull the trigger, avoding two uploads at the same time and some rebuilds
> possibly.

So what is it that you're talking about? Adding a real libpng-dev package?

Cheers,
Emilio