Brokenness caused by libpng update

Dagobert Michelsen dam at opencsw.org
Wed Apr 29 07:01:03 CEST 2015





> Am 28.04.2015 um 23:32 schrieb Laurent Blume <laurent at opencsw.org>:
> 
> Le 2015/04/28 23:03 +0200, Riccardo Mottola a écrit:
>> Hi,
>> 
>>> On 04/28/15 21:26, Laurent Blume wrote:
>>> The website should tell you which packages depend on linpng, check their
>>> .pc files for inclusion of libpng15 as a dependency there.
>> 
>> it is actually CSWlibpng15-15 (for 1.5.13) thus I copied and created
>> CSWlibpng16-16
> 
> Sorry, I was talking specifically about the libpng15.pc file, that
> others' .pc files depend on.
> 
>> why the -15 actually? CSWlibpng15 would have been enough?
> 
> Because they versioned both the library name and its soname, and mgar
> concatenates them automatically.
> 
>> it justconfused me since the release 1.6.16, once 1.6.17 comes out, this
>> fallout won't happen I hope: it remains CSWlibpng16-16, doesn't it?
> 
> Should be fine. Probably.
> 
> Actually, maybe the error here was to have libpng-dev not be
> libpng15-dev. Maybe that could have worked

I suggest to rename CSWlibpng15-dev to CSWlibpng-dev and make an obsoleting prior to rebuild the world.

Best regards -- Dago


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