On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 09:17:01AM -0600, Colin Watson wrote: > On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 08:06:33PM +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote: > > On Wed, 2 Jan 2002 21:36:24 +1100 > > Mark Purcell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > My question still remains. If we require a big recompile, when/ how are > > > we > > > going to bother to advise the maintainers of these packages? It has been > > > stated that we are talking about 300+ packages :-( > > > > Mass NMU, setting Build-Depends to libpng-dev version that is for libpng3 > > sounds like a way to go. > > What about people's local binaries linked against libqt2 and libpng2? > I maintain that "fixing" this in the applications is wrong; if at all > possible, libqt2 should be more careful with the png namespace.
By the way, "imlib1" is in the same boat as libqt2: I recompiled imlib using libpng3 and loads of GNOME binaries started failing to load icons. So this issue affects all of GNOME as well as KDE. -Steve -- by Rocket to the Moon, by Airplane to the Rocket, by Taxi to the Airport, by Frontdoor to the Taxi, by throwing back the blanket and laying down the legs ... - They Might Be Giants
