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From: Samuli Suominen <ssuominen@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Some tarballs still ship broken .png images that can't be viewed with libpng16, "Tracker" bug #468386
Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2014 19:31:35
Message-Id: 53444D1C.2070600@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Some tarballs still ship broken .png images that can't be viewed with libpng16, "Tracker" bug #468386 by Pacho Ramos
1 On 08/04/14 22:26, Pacho Ramos wrote:
2 > El mar, 08-04-2014 a las 16:14 +0300, Samuli Suominen escribió:
3 >> It would take considerably amount of time to start extracting tarballs,
4 >> installing ebuilds, and reporting bugs about possible
5 >> broken .png files within packages.
6 >> The problem is broken IDAT lenght, an error that libpng15 still
7 >> gracefully ignored, but libpng16 no longer ignores.
8 >>
9 >> The bug, http://bugs.gentoo.org/468386
10 >> List created by Tobias at 2013 May,
11 >> https://bugs.gentoo.org/attachment.cgi?id=347306
12 >> <mailto:klausman@g.o>
13 >>
14 >> This has been discussed on the ML before, and most important packages
15 >> got already fixed, but there are packages still
16 >> left. Any help addressing the issue is welcome, and I'm sending this
17 >> mail in hopes people will see packages on the lists
18 >> that intrest them, and fix them.
19 >>
20 >> Thanks,
21 >> Samuli
22 >> <mailto:klausman@g.o>
23 >>
24 > If there exists a tool that detects that broken png files, maybe a QA
25 > portage check (like the one used to detect broken .desktop files) could
26 > be added to help to detect and fix the problematic images :/
27 >
28 >
29
30 Pretty good idea, there is the script in python, and Portage is python,
31 maybe it can be adopted somehow.
32
33 The script is at, https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=466190#c11
34
35 - Samuli

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