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 22:25 +0300, Samuli Suominen escribió:
> On 08/04/14 22:26, Pacho Ramos wrote:
> > 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 :/
> >
> >
> 
> Pretty good idea, there is the script in python, and Portage is python,
> maybe it can be adopted somehow.
> 
> The script is at, https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=466190#c11
> 
> - Samuli
> 

Probably we will need to open a bug report, do you prefer to report that
one or should I? ;)