Comment 23 for bug 23786

"Albert Cahalan" <email address hidden> writes:

> I lost all sorts of apps that Debian no longer packages.
> I even lost penguineyes. Want to package it for me?
>
> I guess it was wrong to rely on shared libraries. Debian
> should use static linking. About the only thing stable
> is the kernel system call interface.
>
> Really, it's not cool to break old binaries.

I was not the one who made the decision to remove libpng2.

But without a clear bug report, I can't really say what the problem
is. If there is a specific bug, can you file it? What do you mean by
you "lost all sorts of apps"? I don't see how this long-closed bug
somehow lost apps.

Thomas