Bug#650601: libpng Package in experimental

[Gianfranco Costamagna <costamagnagianfranco@yahoo.it>]

Hi,

>(that package has a script libpng-config in usr/bin that contains arch-dep information)
>e.g.
>
>"libdir="${prefix}/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu""
We shouldn't remove that file, I see it is used widely also by other distros.

Instead, we can patch packages failing in configure script and add the required dependency.

If you have a list we can do an MBF, or fix them with NMUs when the binNMUs will fail.

https://codesearch.debian.net/perpackage-results/libpng-config/2/page_0

I see 47 packages that might be problematic, even if I'm sure the real number will
be much lower.
(many of them have fallbacks in case that file is not available).

Anyway, 47 NMUs with an added dependency are somewhat a good number for me.

BTW @all

I uploaded in deferred/3 libpng 1.6.2, having a small delta but one nice bugfix and
I think a CVE fixed.

It should be safe to upload straight away.

Gianfranco