On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 03:09:08PM +0100, Christian Marillat wrote: > reassign 128377 gdk-imlib1 > thanks > > > Now, the question is: should GNOME move to libpng3, and how? The QT/KDE > > folks have sidestepped the problem by declaring that libqt2 is > > remaining linked against libpng2, while libqt3 links with libpng3. I > > don't see why we shouldn't adopt the same approach: leave imlib1 > > linked with libpng2 and let imlib's successor libraries link against > > libpng3. Comments? > > I disagree completely. We should *always* compile all packages against > the latest library version and not downgrade the builg dependency to an > old library. We have did the same change to move to libdb3. > > I really want to know why recompiling gdk-imlib1 is too hard ?
It would change imlib's interface in an incompatible way, and therefore require imlib's soname to be changed. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
