Re: [gentoo-dev] Some tarballs still ship broken .png images that can't be viewed with libpng16, "Tracker" bug #468386

[Pacho Ramos]

El mar, 08-04-2014 a las 16:14 +0300, Samuli Suominen escribió:
> It would take considerably amount of time to start extracting tarballs,
> installing ebuilds, and reporting bugs about possible
> broken .png files within packages.
> The problem is broken IDAT lenght, an error that libpng15 still
> gracefully ignored, but libpng16 no longer ignores.
> 
> The bug, http://bugs.gentoo.org/468386
> List created by Tobias at 2013 May,
> https://bugs.gentoo.org/attachment.cgi?id=347306
> <mailto:klaus...@gentoo.org>
> 
> This has been discussed on the ML before, and most important packages
> got already fixed, but there are packages still
> left. Any help addressing the issue is welcome, and I'm sending this
> mail in hopes people will see packages on the lists
> that intrest them, and fix them.
> 
> Thanks,
> Samuli
> <mailto:klaus...@gentoo.org>
> 

If there exists a tool that detects that broken png files, maybe a QA
portage check (like the one used to detect broken .desktop files) could
be added to help to detect and fix the problematic images :/