Brokenness caused by libpng update

Dagobert Michelsen dam at opencsw.org
Tue Apr 28 21:39:05 CEST 2015


Hi Riccardo,

> Am 28.04.2015 um 21:26 schrieb Laurent Blume <laurent at opencsw.org>:
> 
> Le 2015/04/28 21:19 +0200, Riccardo Mottola a écrit:
>> sorry if I did something wrong. I tried my best upgrading libpng and
>> asked for confirmation in the receipe changes.
> 
> Nothing wrong, it's just the fun of handling dependencies. I've dealt
> with such things in the past too.

:-D

>> Should I change something in libpng? I have seen that a new, minor 1.6
>> release is out so I planned an update anyway, although it is minor and
>> not a security concern like this update was.
> 
> No, you only need to deal with organizing the rebuild of deps impacted
> by it.

That means kicking other maintainers to fix their packages. A similar project
was the OpenSSL rebuild:
  http://wiki.opencsw.org/project-openssl

I suggest you make a similar page and track progress.


Best regards

  — Dago

-- 
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and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process." - xkcd #896

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