Am Montag, den 25.01.2016, 21:23 +0000 schrieb Ghislain Vaillant: > Thanks for providing the additional information I requested, Tobias. > > I am still puzzled by a few things. First, the build of FreeImage > 3.17.0 > in Fedora 23 [1] and 24 [2] does not require patching the source > code > for libpng16. This is also consistent with the fact that the > FreeImage > 3.17.0 source code came bundled with a vendored copy of libpng > 1.6.16 > [3], which now both Debian and Fedora strip from their respective > source > packages. > > [1] http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/rpminfo?rpmID=6906784 > [2] http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/rpminfo?rpmID=7143896 > [3] http://freeimage.sourceforge.net/download.html > > So how come that Fedora does not patch for libpng16 and we do?
I can't tell you without deeper analysis. However, without patch it simply FTBFS with the typical symptoms of accessing the API the "old" way. See: http://libpng.sviech.de/old/freeimage.build > AFAIK, the main difference packaging-wise between Debian and Fedora > is > that we run the testsuite. > > Cheers, > Ghis > -- debian-science-maintainers mailing list debian-science-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/debian-science-maintainers