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. > It might be easier to set libpng3 to conflict with libpng2, so that > until libpng2 is removed from the system libpng3 does not enter, > which would make the problem more obvious. That would be utterly wrong. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
