Control: reassign -1 fitspng 2.0-1
Control: retitle -1 fitspng: prints warnings on zlib updates

On 2024-01-29 13:56:14 -0300, David da Silva Polverari wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 29, 2024 at 04:45:59PM +0100, Filip Hroch wrote:
> > Dear Release Team,
> > 
> > may I ask you to rebuild pngcheck package against to
> > the current version of zlib?
> > 
> > I'm maintainer of fitspng package having bug #1059970,
> > and I found that the bug is not related on fitspng itself.
> > Actually, it is caused by pngcheck during CI tests
> > verification. The current binary of pngcheck is compiled
> > against an old zlib yet, and needs a recompilation.
> > 
> In my opinion, there is no need for a rebuild. This is just a warning
> that upstream deemed useful to include on the program. If tests are
> failing because of that, I believe that fitspng tests are the ones that
> should be updated to take that behaviour into account (using
> allow-stderr and grepping for the 'OK', for example). If zlib's SONAME
> hasn't changed, there's not need to link against a newer version.

The warning is mostly pointless for Debian. Minimum requirements are
expressed via dependencies and if zlib's ABI breaks it has to change its
SONAME.

Reassinging to fitspng.

Cheers
-- 
Sebastian Ramacher

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