On Thu, 03 Jan 2002, Ed Tomlinson wrote: > and have created one (See 127215). From my perspective the problem > seems to be the libpng3 changes the dependencies of qt2 and hense kde. > It seems the fix is not to revert/fix libpng but to fix the qt > dependencies however I get the impression that frustration is setting
Yes. Actually, we have the same problem with every library that links with another library that is likely to be used by an app. The best example is libdb*, but there are others. libtiff, libpng, libsasl, libz... You either make sure EVERYthing is linked against the same library versions (and good luck with binary compatibility with other distributions for anything that has a shared library), or you must tell any libraries that link to other libraries to use --symbolic dynamic linking, or you must use versioned symbols. Maybe there is a fourth way, but I don't know of any. Implementing any of the fixes is bound to be painful. > in. ie. did not create the bug so I should not fix it. From a user We actually need a Debian-wide (well, probably a LSB-wide) fix for the problem. The same kind of breakage is expected to hit us again and again until we do that. -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh