Comment 25 for bug 23786

On Sun, May 21, 2006 at 09:33:47PM -0400, Albert Cahalan wrote:
> On 5/21/06, Thomas Bushnell BSG <email address hidden> wrote:
> >"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.

> Easy:

> old stuff needs libpng2
> new stuff depends on stuff that conflicts with libpng2
> user needs the new stuff, and wants to keep the old stuff

Your example for this was penguineyes. The penguineyes package in woody
depends only on gdk-imlib1, libc6, libglib1.2, libgtk1.2, xlibs, and
debconf; it should still be installable fine against etch. If you're seeing
evidence to the contrary, some apt output is probably going to be helpful
here.

> Not upgrading would leave me with plenty of security holes,
> so that isn't an option.

Anything that depends on libpng2 is not upgraded, and may also have security
holes.

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