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From: Ian Stakenvicius <axs@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] FYI: libpng16 won't be able to show some broken icons libpng15 was still able to
Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2013 18:39:02
Message-Id: 51703DB7.703@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] FYI: libpng16 won't be able to show some broken icons libpng15 was still able to by Samuli Suominen
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4 On 18/04/13 02:24 PM, Samuli Suominen wrote:
5 > Short version:
6 >
7 > If you see "PNG IDAT errors" like:
8 >
9 > program: IDAT: invalid distance too far back `test1.png' @
10 >
11 > WARNING **: Icon test1 missing: (0) Fatal error reading PNG image
12 > file: Decompression error in IDAT
13 >
14 > Then you should use >=media-gfx/pngcrush-1.7.57 built with
15 > USE="-system-libs" to it's using libpng 1.5.15 to correct the IDAT
16 > in the .png files using command:
17 >
18 > $ pngcrush -fix -force old.png new.png
19 >
20 > These bogus images were visible with libpng15 and earlier but now
21 > that improved code was committed these bogus files stopped showing
22 > as a side-effect. If I understood correct this is not going to be
23 > fixed in the library itself. Caused by slightly bad combination of
24 > libpng and zlib and some tool.
25 >
26 > Long version:
27 >
28 > http://bugs.gentoo.org/466190
29 > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=698286 + the ML links
30 > mentioned in the bugs
31 >
32 > Figured this is useful for every maintainer to know.
33 >
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35
36 Is this related to the mozilla issue too? ie, should the mozilla herd
37 just fix and supply a 'loading' icon until upstream updates theirs?
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