libpng update 16

Dagobert Michelsen dam at opencsw.org
Mon Apr 20 15:06:30 CEST 2015


Hi Riccardo,

Am 19.04.2015 um 11:05 schrieb Riccardo Mottola <rmottola at opencsw.org>:
> I undeterook the effort to update libpng, I have not yet commited anything, I understand that it is delicate about so-names and other issues and I don't want to mess up since I am not the maintainer.
> I want to have it working on solaris 9 & 10.
> 
> I have the patch pasted below, any comments? If you prefer, I can commit.
> I essentially replaced 15 verywhere with 16, that should give a new soname.

> # The CSWpng package must also pull in libpng.so.3 and libpng12.so.0
> -OBSOLETED_BY_CSWlibpng15-15 = CSWpng
> +OBSOLETED_BY_CSWlibpng16-16 = CSWpng

This is tricky. You must not change CSWpng. That is a legacy package that needs to pull in
the libs in the comment because legacy packages may rely on these. I suggest you
completely remove the obsoletion.


Best regards

  — Dago


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