On Tue, Jan 05, 2016 at 08:04:53PM +0100, Andreas Metzler wrote: > Tobias Frost <t...@frost.de> wrote: > > For those want to test against libpng1.6: > > Note that the libpn16 package in experimental does NOT Provide libpng- > > dev at the moment. As I've hacked something together for my rebuild, > > you can grab the dsc here: > > https://libpng.sviech.de/libpng_package_used/libpng1.6_1.6.19-1.dsc [...] > is there a reason why the experimental packages do not provide > libpng-dev? It seems unnecessarily cumbersome to require maintainers to > make and install a local rebuild of png (or use equivs) to test the > transition.
So that it will immediately fail when something eventually picks up the experimental packages (as experimental buildds right now do in some situations)? Thank you, please not. Been there, done that at the last round it was attempted, after which I reverted it back then. See https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=662411#37. And I still see libpng12 refererences in some relevant pkg-config files, which most probably will then still fail when libpng16-dev gets picked up (unless it started to provide libpng12.pc, which I didn't check but doubt.) Regards, Rene
