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

[Samuli Suominen]

On 08/04/14 23:26, Pacho Ramos wrote:
> 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? ;)
>
>

https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=507172