On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 13:30:41 +0900, Nobuhiro Iwamatsu wrote: > severity 673542 important > thanks > > Hi, > > > All those "compat" packages in 1.5.x are completely broken. > > > > libpng15-15 does not have the same ABI as libpng12-0. So making > > libpng12-0_1.5.10 a compat package depending on libpng15-15 and creating > > symlinks makes absolutely no sense. > > The same is true for libpng3 and the libpng12-dev package. > > The package depending on libpng12 will hardly work, as you have pointed out. > However, this was due to be solved by transition of libpng15 altogether. > Regrettably, since some packages have not been supported yet, the transition > to > libpng15 is not performed by wheezy. > The main reason it's not being performed is that the libpng maintainers have shown time and time again that they don't know what they are doing.
> And I have a feeling that this is not RC bug. Your feeling is wrong. > I change severity of this bug to important. > And I change it back. Cheers, Julien
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