Bug#353392: pngcrush and bugs 331068, 338659, 355693, 352177, 330026
Kapil Hari Paranjape <kapil@imsc.res.in> writes:
> This is somewhat long. My apologies in advance:
>
> A. As I posted on debian-qa earlier, the bugs mentioned in the subject
> were discussed in png-mng-implement in the following thread.
>
> http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=9575058&forum_id=43850
>
> The upstream author of "pngcrush" (Glenn Randers-Pehrson) was
> party to this discussion.
>
> B. Following this upstream has made available a version of pngcrush
> called pngcrush-<version>-nolib.tar.bz2 that will fix the bug(s)
> given above. The file is below http://pmt.sf.net/pngcrush with
> current version 1.6.2.
>
> C. The maintainer of pngcrush has not updated the package for a long
> time and there are a number of grave bugs open on the package.
> Mails to the maintainer (in Dec 2005, Jan 2006) have not evoked any
> response.
>
> D. A PNG optimizer similar called "optipng" which is similar in
> function (but not in design) to "pngcrush" has recently entered
> etch.
pngcrush was later orphaned -- <http://bugs.debian.org/353392> -- and is
marked as being adopted by Alexander Schmehl.
Alexander, do you still intend to adopt it? Does optipng render
pngcrush unnecessary?
> E. I have prepared a "pngcrush" package based on pngcrush-nolib.tar.gz.
> I am willing to adopt this package if rules do not permit an NMU
> for such major changes.
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I can do a QA upload for you, but let's see what Alexander says first.
Thanks,
Matej
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