Package: ftp.debian.org
Severity: normal
Hey,
The libpng package in experimental (1.5.11-1) is incredibly broken and has been
so since at least december last year. Some grave bugs caused by this are
#652001 and #673542 (open since respectively last december and last may).
While this is ofcourse an experimental package, it seems to be so fundamentally
broken it shouldn't ever have been near any section of the debian archive ever.
Imho the bit that says it all is:
$ head -n1 libpng12-0.links.in
/lib/${DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH}/libpng15.so.15
/usr/lib/${DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH}/libpng12.so.0
Even though libpng15 and libpng12 aren't ABI compatible.. The packaging turns
out
to do the same for the -dev packages (symlinking even though the APIs aren't
compatible).
While an NMU would be possible, it seems best (at least to me) to simply remove
the package
from the archive until that time.
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