Hi,
>I don't even see libpng16-dev in Ubuntu, even in wily, the current
>development release. libpng is a core library, you can't just brutally
>upgrade that to a new upstream version without risking breaking
>anything. You'll risk breaking tons of packages. Something as important
>as libpng needs a proper transition.
bug #650601 is still sleeping :)
>> I fixed it in the dirty way: I installed manually the headers and
>> pkgconfig of 1.6 in the system :)
>
>Then we're out of luck. There is no way you can upload the package
>that way to Debian, sorry.
well, there is at least two more solutions:
1) target the upload to experimental, where the libpng16 is available
2) embed libpng16 inside the source
(well, it is not a suggestion, just a matter of facts)
>Then we'll have to wait until the libpng16 transition has happened.
this will still be needed for an unstable upload, while experimental should be
good.
cheers,
G.
