Re: do not delete gnome-1
Le mardi 27 septembre 2005 à 20:43 -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG a écrit :
> What should have happened was that libpng10 was in use, and Josselin
> Mouette didn't want to maintain it any more, so he should have
> *orphaned* it. Don't just delete libraries without checking with the
> packages that use them first. In this case, we were hosed because of
> this strategy.
Will you *please* stop talking about things without documenting yourself
first ?
I have repeatedly warned libpng2/libpng10 users that these packages
would have to be *removed* after the sarge release. Yes, removed.
There's no way I'm letting such a package in Debian when:
1. There is a complete and smooth replacement since both libpng10
and libpng12 have their symbols versioned in sarge. The new
version is entirely API-compatible.
2. The package has a long-standing track record of security issues
which makes the security team's work a nightmare when there are
two separate source packages involved.
3. Other distributions are using only libpng12/libpng3, making
binaries linked against GNOME 1 libraries binary incompatible
with ours.
Regular announces were made on debian-devel. I also warned maintainers
of packages depending on libpng10 several months ago, and bugs were
filed before the removal.
Now we have a problem with imlib, as the maintainer is orphaning the
packages. As you seem to intend to take over the packages, here is the
process I would recommend:
* You should entirely remove the imlib+png2 source package.
* The imlib package should be made to build the gdk-imlib1,
gdk-imlib1-dev, imlib-base, and imlib-progs, all linked against
libpng12.
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