On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 11:19:08PM +1100, AnÃbal Monsalve Salazar wrote: >On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 11:58:21AM +0000, Adam D. Barratt wrote: >>On 22.03.2012 11:21, Adam D. Barratt wrote: >>>On 22.03.2012 11:00, AnÃbal Monsalve Salazar wrote: >>>>So, the message is to move away from libpng 1.2 in Debian as >>>>soon as we can. >>> >>>In that case, maybe someone could address some of the issues we >>>raised when the transition was first proposed? e.g. the >>>"requirement" or changing the development page name and thus >>>needing otherwise unneccessary source uploads of a bunch of >>>packages >> >>As a concrete example, running "dak rm -b libpng12-dev" on >>ftp-master a short while ago suggests that there are currently over >>two hundred source packages in unstable with a build-dependency >>either on "libpng12{,-0}-dev" with no alternative or with the 1.2 >>package as the first in an alternative list. If the libpng 1.5 >>packages from experimental were to transition to unstable right now, >>we'd be unable to binNMU any of those packages; they would all >>require source uploads to change the build-dependency. It may be >>that some of these can be explained by multiple source versions >>where the newer source has migrated to use libpng-dev, but I suspect >>those are a minority. >> >>fwiw, there are also still six packages in unstable with libpng3-dev >>as the only png-related build dependency. It may be that those >>packages have other issues, fo course. > >libpng3-dev is an empty package that hasn't been removed yet, but can be >kept if you wish so. It was requiered for a previous transition. We >could make empty packages "libpng12{,-0}-dev" depending on libpng15-15 >and libpng-dev respectively.
libpng3-dev doesn't exist in Debian. libpng3 depends on libpng12-0 (>= 1.2.5.0-2) currently. It's empty in the sense that it only has symbolic links to the shared library in libpng12-0. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org