On Sun, May 21, 2006 at 09:33:47PM -0400, Albert Cahalan wrote: > On 5/21/06, Thomas Bushnell BSG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >"Albert Cahalan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >> I lost all sorts of apps that Debian no longer packages. > >> I even lost penguineyes. Want to package it for me? > >> I guess it was wrong to rely on shared libraries. Debian > >> should use static linking. About the only thing stable > >> is the kernel system call interface. > >> Really, it's not cool to break old binaries. > >I was not the one who made the decision to remove libpng2. > >But without a clear bug report, I can't really say what the problem > >is. If there is a specific bug, can you file it? What do you mean by > >you "lost all sorts of apps"? I don't see how this long-closed bug > >somehow lost apps. > Easy: > old stuff needs libpng2 > new stuff depends on stuff that conflicts with libpng2 > user needs the new stuff, and wants to keep the old stuff Your example for this was penguineyes. The penguineyes package in woody depends only on gdk-imlib1, libc6, libglib1.2, libgtk1.2, xlibs, and debconf; it should still be installable fine against etch. If you're seeing evidence to the contrary, some apt output is probably going to be helpful here. > Not upgrading would leave me with plenty of security holes, > so that isn't an option. Anything that depends on libpng2 is not upgraded, and may also have security holes. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/
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