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On Friday, February 11, 2011 01:49:43 PM Samuli Suominen wrote: |
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> > 4) What have we learned from libpng 1.2 -> 1.4 upgrade? I'd just like to |
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> > be better informed. |
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> One way under consideration: |
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> We have been discussing about removing libpng.pc, libpng.so and |
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> unversioned headers from the libpng 1.5.x package allowing it to install |
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> parallel with libpng 1.4.x. |
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> That means every package that has been checked working against 1.5.x, |
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> will need to be patched to link against -lpng15, use headers from the |
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> libpng15/ directory and use libpng15.pc instead. |
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you are seriously considering patching every single package using libpng like |
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this instead of fixing those that fail??? (and i'm not talking about the fact |
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that these patches cannot be upstreamed...) |
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if you want to slot it, better provide something like an eselect module for |
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libpng.pc/.so |
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A. |
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