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Bug#414525: libglpng: 414525: may no longer be needed in squeeze



Paul Wise schrieb:
> Hi,
> 
> The only reverse dependency of glpng is the game chromium. I'm right now
> adding a massaging a patch from a Gentoo guy into chromium upstream that
> adds support for SDL_image as an alternative to glpng for loading images
> into textures. So, glpng could potentially be removed post-lenny (in
> squeeze). I'd recommend not bothering with adopting it unless you want
> it for something else, since upstream has been dead for years.
> 

Hi

If you have an chromium which works without glpng I would be in favour
of removing it, too I guess. We do also have (or will have) other libs
that are maintained and can do the same thing (libSOIL, for example,
would be an small lib for OpenGL image loading) and are still developed
upstream.

Regards

  Christoph

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