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

[Frank Küster <frank@kuesterei.ch>]

Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> wrote:

> On Tue, 2005-09-27 at 09:13 -0400, Albert Cahalan wrote:
>
>> Gee, I don't know. It's a mess:
>> 
>> libpng12-dev   1.2.8rel-1
>> libpng12-0    1.2.8rel-1
>
> Those are the ones.
> Upgrade to anything >= 1.2.8rel-1.0.1 and gimp/imagemagick will work.
> But at the same time, pdflatex won't work
>
> So, here's a table
>
> libpng12-0 version        gimp works       pdflatex works
> 1.2.8rel-1                no               yes
> 1.2.8rel-1.0.1            yes              no
> 1.2.8rel-2                yes              no
> 1.2.8rel-4                yes              no
>
> Those are all versions I tested. Note that 1.0.1 was a NMU to fix
> something. Possibly gimp?

Interesting.  What happens if you recompile tetex-bin with 
libpng12-0 >= *-1.0.1? 

Regards, Frank
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Frank Küster
Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer