J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) writes: > 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.
That sounds quite reasonable. The first rule for introducing something new like Gnome2 into a mature distro like Debian should be the same rule that physicians follow: do no harm. >From my personal experience leading the upgrade from SAX1 to SAX2, I know that's not easy: many of the compromises we had to make were technically inelegant (or even ugly), and I was often tempted just to break backwards-compatibility and ask everyone to upgrade their apps. Fortunately, I received and listened to sane advice, and as a result, SAX is still widely used (and under a different maintainer to boot). It's OK to make mistakes -- if you don't take some risks, you can never make any progress. It's also OK, though, to admit mistakes. Debian has experimented one one upgrade path for Gnome2/GTK2/png3 and it didn't work; it's time to try something different. All the best, David -- David Megginson, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.megginson.com/
