Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Sep 27, 2005 at 07:01:26PM -0400, Nathanael Nerode wrote: >> Thomas Bushnell wrote: >> >Do not delete packages just because you think nobody *should* use >> >them; delete them because nobody *does* use them. >> I am suggesting deleting them because nobody *can* use them. > >> Unless libpng10 is brought back, none of these packages are usable. > > Because recompiling against new upstream versions of a library is a lost > art? > > libpng12 doesn't even export a different ABI than libpng10, it just suffers > from an upstream who doesn't know enough about library ABI handling to have > done the right thing.
This is good to know. I'm happy to drop libpng10 on the assurance that it's source-compatible. So what we need now is for the imlib source package to build and package the gdk_imlib library files, which are currently only provided by imlib+png2. At that point, those things which are currently using imlib+png2 can be rebuild against imlib (the only real offender here is gnome-libs) and we can drop imlib+png2 and everything will be happy. I have already sent email to Steve Robbins requesting that he do this in imlib. Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
