redhat-lsb-desktop versus transition to current libpng

2012-08-01 Thread Tom Lane
I have been working for the better part of a year on moving Fedora off of libpng's obsolete 1.2.x release series and onto the current 1.5.x series. We are practically there now, and I had hoped to drop libpng 1.2 from the distribution before the F18 branch. However, I find that

Re: redhat-lsb-desktop versus transition to current libpng

2012-08-01 Thread Adam Williamson
On Wed, 2012-08-01 at 02:17 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: I have been working for the better part of a year on moving Fedora off of libpng's obsolete 1.2.x release series and onto the current 1.5.x series. We are practically there now, and I had hoped to drop libpng 1.2 from the distribution before

Re: redhat-lsb-desktop versus transition to current libpng

2012-08-01 Thread Adam Williamson
On Wed, 2012-08-01 at 00:21 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: On Wed, 2012-08-01 at 02:17 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: I have been working for the better part of a year on moving Fedora off of libpng's obsolete 1.2.x release series and onto the current 1.5.x series. We are practically there now, and

Re: redhat-lsb-desktop versus transition to current libpng

2012-08-01 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 08/01/2012 01:06 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: Well, that's really it. The format of LSB is a bit odd to a lay reader, but AFAICT, it really does mean: to be technically in compliance with LSB-desktop, you need to ship a libpng12.so.0 which provides the listed functions. End of story. I don't

Re: redhat-lsb-desktop versus transition to current libpng

2012-08-01 Thread Richard Hughes
On 1 August 2012 10:47, Rahul Sundaram methe...@gmail.com wrote: Fedora is not LSB compatible. Is it? Why do we even care about this at all? I think I can speak for most of the core GNOME desktop developers and state that we don't care about LSB one little bit. Richard. -- devel mailing

Re: redhat-lsb-desktop versus transition to current libpng

2012-08-01 Thread Adam Jackson
On 8/1/12 5:47 AM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: On 08/01/2012 01:06 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: Well, that's really it. The format of LSB is a bit odd to a lay reader, but AFAICT, it really does mean: to be technically in compliance with LSB-desktop, you need to ship a libpng12.so.0 which provides the

Re: redhat-lsb-desktop versus transition to current libpng

2012-08-01 Thread Tom Lane
Adam Williamson awill...@redhat.com writes: On Wed, 2012-08-01 at 00:21 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: A very quick search returns this: http://refspecs.linuxbase.org/LSB_4.1.0/LSB-Desktop-generic/LSB-Desktop-generic/libpng.html Thanks. The links I was given previously didn't lead me to that.

Re: redhat-lsb-desktop versus transition to current libpng

2012-08-01 Thread Tom Callaway
On 08/01/2012 10:03 AM, Tom Lane wrote: What this means, IMO, is that we need to split out libpng12 as a separate package. The current hack that I'm using (bundling 1.2 and 1.5 into a single SRPM) was never meant to be more than a very short-term stopgap; I'm sure it violates all sorts of

Re: redhat-lsb-desktop versus transition to current libpng

2012-08-01 Thread Bill Nottingham
Rahul Sundaram (methe...@gmail.com) said: On 08/01/2012 01:06 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: Well, that's really it. The format of LSB is a bit odd to a lay reader, but AFAICT, it really does mean: to be technically in compliance with LSB-desktop, you need to ship a libpng12.so.0 which

Re: redhat-lsb-desktop versus transition to current libpng

2012-08-01 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 08/01/2012 09:45 PM, Bill Nottingham wrote: I can see assorted ways we could theoretically handle a desire to remove libpng 1.2 from the distribution, but merely dropping the req from redhat-lsb is the obviously wrong answer. Right. I was obviously not suggesting it but perhaps

Re: redhat-lsb-desktop versus transition to current libpng

2012-08-01 Thread Nicola Soranzo
Il giorno mer, 01/08/2012 alle 09.51 -0400, Adam Jackson ha scritto: Fedora is not LSB compatible. Is it? Why do we even care about this at all? It is if you install redhat-lsb. The only intrinsic reason to care about LSB support is binary compatibility; Fedora broadly doesn't, but

Re: redhat-lsb-desktop versus transition to current libpng

2012-08-01 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 08/01/2012 10:21 AM, Richard Hughes wrote: On 1 August 2012 10:47, Rahul Sundarammethe...@gmail.com wrote: Fedora is not LSB compatible. Is it? Why do we even care about this at all? I think I can speak for most of the core GNOME desktop developers and state that we don't care about LSB

Re: redhat-lsb-desktop versus transition to current libpng

2012-08-01 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 08/01/2012 04:48 PM, Nicola Soranzo wrote: bcfg2-server I dont think it's necessary for it to depend on redhat-lsb-desktop anymore since that package has move to using unit files instead.. JBG -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: redhat-lsb-desktop versus transition to current libpng

2012-08-01 Thread Tom Lane
Tom Callaway tcall...@redhat.com writes: On 08/01/2012 10:03 AM, Tom Lane wrote: What this means, IMO, is that we need to split out libpng12 as a separate package. The current hack that I'm using (bundling 1.2 and 1.5 into a single SRPM) was never meant to be more than a very short-term