Brokenness caused by libpng update

[Laurent Blume]

Le 2015/05/05 10:05 +0200, Riccardo Mottola a écrit:
> Hi,
> 
> well, you somehow convinced me that we need a versioned developer
> package. My guts still don't like it, but what you say makes a lot of
> sense.
> 
> Does it work not having the symlink at all?

Maybe. Up to you to prove it. Hey, you broke it ;-)
Personally, seeing Linux distros have it, I think it's needed.

 I that case everything is
> fine! If you can confirm that, we can think about removing the symlink.
> If things work like the libraries symlink however it is needed and it is
> better just to upgrade all packages.

> Can we somhow simplify this procedure? Seems a lot of work to me. I see
> not problems

It's what happens when you start playing with dependencies that impact
other people's work :-)
Don't worry, you're not the first, and this looks pretty easy compared
to some others.

> 
> 1) respin 1.5 versioned dev without the symlink
> 2) respin 1.6 versioned dev without the symlink
> 
> respinnin a non-versioned dev with "which" comments "where" seems a lot
> of hassle.

I don't understand what you tried to say here. FWIW, I'm in favor of the
symlink to be in the most recent version, whatever that is, not having
an additional unversioned package that contains only that link.

Laurent