On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 12:12:15AM +0200, Alexander Reichle-Schmehl wrote:
>* 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.
>
>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.
Hello Sjoerd,
The libpng package in experimental is for the transition to libpng 1.5
and it will happen after the next Debian release. Please refer to
#649787.
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=650601
Cheers,
Aníbal
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