Le mercredi 12 octobre 2005 à 15:53 +0930, Ron a écrit :
> Package: gdk-imlib1
> Version: 1.9.14-22
> Severity: critical
> Justification: breaks unrelated software
Software depending on a library is not "unrelated" software.
> Unless there is something big I am missing, gdk-imlib should
> certainly not take it upon itself to force the removal of
> libpng2 and all its dependencies...
How so? It's just being removed from sid, and no upload of this package
has been made in the last 9 months.
> Josselin: I see from #323354 that you are planning to kill
> off libpng2 soon in any case. Where does this leave apps
> that still depend on gtk1? Will it be rebuilt to use png3,
> or something else? wx2.4 can build with png3 just fine,
> but I'm much less sure about how well it can be rebuilt with
> gtk2...
You should preferably rebuild it with gtk2, as the long-term plan is to
kill gtk1, but it's not going to happen anytime soon.
> That's not the only package that this (wrong IMO) change to
> gdk-imlib make uninstallable on my system though. Please
> fix this and/or advise of a transition plan.
You should just rebuild the package against gdk-imlib11, that's all.
That package is linked against libpng12, as libpng2/libpng10 has been
removed as well.
Regards,
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Le mercredi 12 octobre 2005 à 15:53 +0930, Ron a écrit :
> Package: gdk-imlib1
> Version: 1.9.14-22
> Severity: critical
> Justification: breaks unrelated software
Software depending on a library is not "unrelated" software.
> Unless there is something big I am missing, gdk-imlib should
> certainly not take it upon itself to force the removal of
> libpng2 and all its dependencies...
How so? It's just being removed from sid, and no upload of this package
has been made in the last 9 months.
> Josselin: I see from #323354 that you are planning to kill
> off libpng2 soon in any case. Where does this leave apps
> that still depend on gtk1? Will it be rebuilt to use png3,
> or something else? wx2.4 can build with png3 just fine,
> but I'm much less sure about how well it can be rebuilt with
> gtk2...
You should preferably rebuild it with gtk2, as the long-term plan is to
kill gtk1, but it's not going to happen anytime soon.
> That's not the only package that this (wrong IMO) change to
> gdk-imlib make uninstallable on my system though. Please
> fix this and/or advise of a transition plan.
You should just rebuild the package against gdk-imlib11, that's all.
That package is linked against libpng12, as libpng2/libpng10 has been
removed as well.
Regards,
--
.''`. Josselin Mouette /\./\
: :' : <email address hidden>
`. `' <email address hidden>
`- Debian GNU/Linux -- The power of freedom