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On Thu, 13 May 2004 12:18:25 +0200 |
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Thierry Carrez <koon@g.o> wrote: |
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> Hi everyone, |
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> As part of the resolution of the libpng vulnerability (bug #49887) we |
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> propose to clean up old libpng versions, including all 1.0.* versions. |
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> Since this package doesn't seem to have a maintainer (please correct |
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> me if I am wrong here), I prefer to double-check with everyone this |
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> won't break anything. |
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> Background : |
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> Historically (back in 2002), libpng was slotted as "1.0" and "1.2" in |
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> order to prevent revdep-rebuilding all packages when libpng hit 1.2. |
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> Today, no package in portage specifically requires 1.0.* and most |
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> packages specifically require >=1.2.0. |
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> If someone thinks it will break something, please speak now. If I was |
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> wrong assuming this package had no maintainer and you're the man (or |
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> woman), please show up :) |
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> Thanks in advance, |
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I'm probably as much a maintainer as that package gets, mostly due to me |
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and seemant being the ones who've been forced to deal with it when it |
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breaks. *cough* |
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It might cause issues, but 1.0 should really be going->gone and has been |
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slated that way for ages, mostly due to the binary-incompatible headache |
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it gave us. |
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If you get 1.0 gone and out, I'll love you for it. Take it out into the |
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yard and shoot it, then bury it and sing praise, it did serve well.. a |
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couple of years ago. ;) |
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as for breakage, people with -old- systems are likely to experience |
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headaches from it dissapearing, however, those systems are already so |
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old they probably have headaches already. Its a simple rebuild-to-fix |
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and unless they start updating there won't be an issue since 1.0 won't |
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dissapear from their machines overnight. |
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//Spider |
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Tortured users / Laughing in pain |
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See Microsoft KB Article Q265230 for more information. |
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