On Wed, Aug 28, 2002 at 19:52:18 +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote: > On Wed, 28 Aug 2002 12:15:48 +0200 > "J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The attached patch does that: it introduces a "libpng2-altdev" package > > that (unlike libpng2-dev) can be installed alongside libpng3-dev and can > > be used to build libpng2-dependent packages without needing a chroot or > > removing lots of libpng3-dev-dependent -dev packages. > > Please don't fork png further.
I'm afraid I don't follow you. My patch does nothing more than introducing an alternative packaging of libpng2's development files, which allows building libpng2-dependent packages on systems that need to have libpng3-dev installed as well. As you can see in the patch, the -altdev is merely a different packaging/renaming of the includes, .a and .so of libpng2-dev. The .h, .a and .so files in libpng2-altdev are _identical_ to the ones in libpng2-dev. There is no fork. > Upstream releases already implement that. I don't follow. Upstream releases don't deal with coexistance of Debian packages of different versions of a library. Ray -- The Linux movement has been independent of anything Microsoft is doing. It's one of those cosmic movements in the industry, like the emergence of the Internet, or microprocessors. Irving Wladawsky-Berger, IBM VP in http://www.informationweek.com/793/ibm.htm
