Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Pacho Ramos <pacho@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 19:26:33
Message-Id: 1396985171.2061.33.camel@belkin5
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Some tarballs still ship broken .png images that can't be viewed with libpng16, "Tracker" bug #468386 by Samuli Suominen
1 El mar, 08-04-2014 a las 16:14 +0300, Samuli Suominen escribió:
2 > It would take considerably amount of time to start extracting tarballs,
3 > installing ebuilds, and reporting bugs about possible
4 > broken .png files within packages.
5 > The problem is broken IDAT lenght, an error that libpng15 still
6 > gracefully ignored, but libpng16 no longer ignores.
7 >
8 > The bug, http://bugs.gentoo.org/468386
9 > List created by Tobias at 2013 May,
10 > https://bugs.gentoo.org/attachment.cgi?id=347306
11 > <mailto:klausman@g.o>
12 >
13 > This has been discussed on the ML before, and most important packages
14 > got already fixed, but there are packages still
15 > left. Any help addressing the issue is welcome, and I'm sending this
16 > mail in hopes people will see packages on the lists
17 > that intrest them, and fix them.
18 >
19 > Thanks,
20 > Samuli
21 > <mailto:klausman@g.o>
22 >
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 :/

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