Bug#322821: libpng12-0: new version breaks pdflatex

[Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org>]

Le lundi 26 septembre 2005 à 15:20 +0200, Frank Küster a écrit :
> > After discussing with the submitter, it looks like tetex-bin needs a
> > rebuild as well. A binary-only upload on powerpc should do the trick.
> 
> I might out myself as a complete ignorant in terms of libraries, but
> this seems to me only a half-solution.  Why is the recompile necessary?

You might want to ask some powerpc specialist.

> Do you think that the build environment was screwed up - then how do we
> know that the autobuilder is set up correctly now, to prevent the
> problem reoccuring? 
> 
> Or was there an undetected ABI change - shouldn't the library get a new
> soname then?

If there was an ABI change, it was powerpc-only, and caused by the
toolchain, as I'm pretty sure this cannot be caused by a change in
libpng.
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