Am Freitag, den 18.12.2015, 19:45 +0100 schrieb Michael Biebl: > Am 18.12.2015 um 18:42 schrieb Tobias Frost: > > Source: gdk-pixbuf > > Followup-For: Bug #642265 > > > > Dear Michael, > > > > please consider updating the alternate B-D of libpng-dev from > > libpng12-dev to > > libpng16-dev to faciliate easier compiling against the newer libpng > > from > > experimental, helping the transistion. > > For that I'd like to see a credible transition plan first, before > doing > any changes. > > What I remember from the libpng transition is, that so far it's been > planned and executed poorly [1].
Currently its libpng-dev | libpng12-dev; as you know the buildds will anyway always take the first option, so there this is a noop anyway. (libpng-dev is provided by libpng12-dev) But it helps (a little) when trying to compile packages against the newer library... > Regards, > Michael > > [1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=673542