tags 688581 + moreinfo
thanks
Hi Sjoerd!
As far as I can see you are not listed as maintainer or uploader of said
package, and we generally try to avoid removing packages against the
will of the maintainers. Therefore I'm CCing Anibal and Nobuhiro, so
they can comment.
* Sjoerd Simons <sjo...@debian.org> [120923 23:00]:
> The libpng package in experimental (1.5.11-1) is incredibly broken and has
> been
> so since at least december last year. Some grave bugs caused by this are
> #652001 and #673542 (open since respectively last december and last may).
>
> While this is ofcourse an experimental package, it seems to be so
> fundamentally
> broken it shouldn't ever have been near any section of the debian archive
> ever.
> Imho the bit that says it all is:
>
> $ head -n1 libpng12-0.links.in
> /lib/${DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH}/libpng15.so.15
> /usr/lib/${DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH}/libpng12.so.0
>
> Even though libpng15 and libpng12 aren't ABI compatible.. The packaging turns
> out
> to do the same for the -dev packages (symlinking even though the APIs aren't
> compatible).
>
> While an NMU would be possible, it seems best (at least to me) to simply
> remove the package
> from the archive until that time.
Best regards,
Alexander
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