Bug#331068: PNG crush NMU

2006-01-27 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, The following remarks about my previous patch came up on the Debian QA mailing list. On Thu, 26 Jan 2006, Russ Allbery wrote: > Ugh, that's not a very good solution. That means that the next time > there's a security hole in zlib or libpng, which hasn't been uncommon, it > may also affect

Bug#331068: PNG crush NMU

2006-01-27 Thread Thomas Viehmann
Hi Kapil, Kapil Hari Paranjape wrote: > I have submitted a new patch report to the relevant bugs with an > alternative solution. Let us see what the maintainer thinks of the > new patch. Um, are you sure that there aren't any public functions in libpng to achieve the same? As a wild guess (really

Bug#331068: PNG crush NMU

2006-02-07 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, Following the suggestion of Thomas Viehmann I joined the "png-mng-implement" list where the development of libpng is discussed by many including among them the author of pngcrush. My posting there let to the following thread: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=9575058&