Comment 7 for bug 23612

Steve Langasek <email address hidden> writes:

> Please take it under advisement that I am currently trying to persuade
> Thomas that the gdk-imlib11-dev and gdk-imlib11 packages should be abandoned
> in favor of reintroduction of gdk-imlib1 and gdk-imlib1-dev as
> libpng12-based packages. I know a couple of you have already uploaded your
> packages to fix these bugs, which if all goes according to plan means you
> will have to *re*upload shortly to revert this change, sorry. For the rest
> of you, I would suggest that you hold off on implementing this change until
> Thomas and I come to some sort of agreement.

This is sadly FUD. Re-uploading is certainly unnecessary because
whatever happens, gdk-imlib11-dev will continue to be provided.

> One way or another, I do intend to reintroduce gdk-imlib1 and gdk-imlib1-dev
> to etch based on libpng12-0, so unless your package depends on libpng10-0
> directly, you shouldn't need to reupload your package for the png
> transition.

Even if this is shown to be wrong?

Steve: can you please stop spamming everyone with each message this
way? Instead, please respond to my messages directly.