On Sat, 17 Aug 2002 17:07:27 -0500
Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I think Junichi said this is not a recent change. Apparently we've
> > been skipping newer upstream releases because of this change. Our
> > libpng is 1.2.1, upstream's beta is 1.2.5. Junichi said fixes are
> > being actively backported. That sounds like more work for our people,
> > which doesn't help us.
>
> I suppose I should look at upstream's changelog, to see when this soname
> change took place. If it happened 6 months ago, I guess we'll have to
> pay the price for an inactive package maintainer.
It started to happen, according to the CHANGELOG, about 6 months ago.
libpng does not use autoconf/automake, and the upstream has to edit
22 makefiles.
It struck hard, with 1.2.4 release which was meant to be a security fix.
Last maintainer upload was December 2001, and I started seriously looking at
libpng (as a Debian maintainer, looking at new upstream versions) around
July this year.
And yes, we were kinda busy releasing woody at that time in between ...
regards,
junichi
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