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Fabien Tassin (fta) wrote : Please package libpng 1.2.24

hardy/sid have 1.2.15~beta5-3, upstream has 1.2.24.

I've packaged 1.2.24 for Hardy.
Important addition is support for APNG (Animated PNG) so Firefox 3, xulrunner 1.9 and other Mozilla applications can now switch to system-png instead of using their private copy.

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libpng (1.2.24-0ubuntu1) hardy; urgency=low

  * New upstream release: 1.2.24
  * Add quilt as patch system and convert previous in-source
    changes into patches:
    - update debian/control and debian/rules
    - add debian/patches/01_fix_url_and_copyright.patch
    - add debian/patches/series
    (other changes dropped as they are no longer needed)
  * Add shlibs symbols file
    - update debian/rules
    - add debian/libpng12-0.symbols
    - two symbols are now deprecated: png_read_destroy and png_write_destroy
  * Bump Standards-Version to 3.7.3 and add Homepage field
    - update debian/control
  * Doc file libpng.txt is now versionned: libpng-1.2.24.txt
    - update debian/libpng12-0.docs
    - update debian/libpng12-0.doc-base
  * Drop debian/dirs as we don't install anything in /usr/{bin,sbin}
  * Don't ignore make clean errors
    - update debian/rules
  * Drop ${Source-Version} and use ${binary:Version} instead
    - update debian/control
  * Add APNG support. See http://littlesvr.ca/apng/
    - add debian/patches/02_support_for_apng.patch
    - update debian/patches/series
  * Update symbols file accordingly:
    - update debian/libpng12-0.symbols
    - update debian/rules

 -- Fabien Tassin <email address hidden> Tue, 22 Jan 2008 21:05:41 +0100