On Tue, 27 Jun 2006 02:04:59 -0400, Sander Hoentjen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>  
wrote:

> On Mon, 2006-06-26 at 18:07 -0400, Youness Alaoui wrote:
>> On Mon, 26 Jun 2006 16:46:22 -0400, Vivia Nikolaidou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> wrote:
>>
>> > On 6/26/06, Youness Alaoui <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> >> On Mon, 26 Jun 2006 07:44:04 -0400, Philippe Valembois - Phil
>> >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> > Le Sunday 25 June 2006 21:55, Youness Alaoui a écrit:
>> >> >> in here : http://amsn.sourceforge.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=1205  
>> you
>> >> >> can
>> >> >> find an image that doesn't work with TkCximage.. we plan on doing
>> >> >> something to it ? Phil ? no more plans apart of the rewrite ?  
>> you're
>> >> >> free
>> >> >> to decide, but if some people use this image as DP and amsn  
>> crashes..
>> >> >> for
>> >> >> me, it's a critical issue...
>> >> > Can't reproduce the error...
>> >> > It only fails with it... The only thing I can do is to update  
>> libpng
>> >> to
>> >> > the
>> >> > last version... I let you decide if I do it : it's ready to be
>> >> > committed...
>> >> > Phil
>> >>
>> >> Shouldn't we remove libpng and zlib, and all that crap from amsn SVN  
>> ?
>> >> and
>> >> leave it as a dependency ? add the dep in the configure and we're  
>> done ?
>> >> just like what Sander did for FC5 ?
>> >> I think it's the best way to do it... the only way it should be.
>> >
>> > Yes, unless they are patched? (I don't know). Then I guess we have to
>> > do the same for tkdnd, but leave it optional.
>>
>>
>> Huh ? what's your point with tkdnd ? tkdnd is not in SVN!!!
>> I'm talking about amsn/utils/TkCximage/src/zlib
>> amsn/utils/TkCximage/src/png amsn/utils/TkCximage/src/jpeg ... those are
>> libraries we should find installed on the system and we shouldn't ship
>> them with us...
>> I just checked libjpeg, it hasn't changed so we're secure with it, but
>> libpng has changed :
>> http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/libpng.html
>> look at the first red warning :
>> "Versions 1.2.7, 1.2.6, 1.0.17, and 1.0.16 have a bug that will cause
>> applications that strip the alpha channel (while reading a PNG) to  
>> crash.
>> The bug is fixed in versions 1.2.8 and 1.0.18, which were released on 3
>> December 2004."
>> The one we have shipped with CxImage is version 1.2.7 (png.h) and the
>> latest release is 1.2.10...
>> and for zlib, we have 1.2.1 (zlib.h) while the latest is 1.2.3, and look
>> at the first sentence in http://zlib.net
>> "Version 1.2.3 eliminates potential security vulnerabilities in zlib  
>> 1.2.1
>> and 1.2.2, so all users of those versions should upgrade immediately.  
>> The
>> following important fixes are provided in zlib 1.2.3 over 1.2.1 and  
>> 1.2.2"
>>
>> Which means that we REALLY should make sure TkCximage depends on zlib
>> 1.2.3+ and libpng 1.2.8+ (although 1.2.10 is preferred of course)
>
> Or not, amsn won't crash, and if a user has outdated libs he should
> worry about that himself. I don't think we should add extra complexity.
> Attached I have the patch from my SRPM for the libs, easy enough but I
> thought I would send it anyway.
>>
>> In the case of tkdnd... I still don't know what's the relation, we do  
>> ship
>> it (who cares about the shipping), but I'm taking about what should be
>> part of amsn's sources...
>>

humm.. I guess you're right, but can't we set a minimal version ? at  
least, set it to the one CxImage came with, we don't know about backward  
compatibility...
about your patch, am I dreaming, or is the latest Opera 9 buggy, or did  
you just forget to include the attachment ?



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