Raphael Geissert wrote: > It appears that libpng upstream is going to abandon libpng12 by the end of > the year [1]. Luckily, RedHat and others still need to support it for many > years, meaning we wouldn't be alone when fixing security issues and the > like.
After a discussion between upstream and some other people... > UPDATE 6 January 2011: [...] > For legacy applications, libpng-1.2.44 and libpng-1.0.54 are also > available and will only be updated if necessary for security reasons. > Despite the previous announcement, we will continue to support > libpng-1.0.x with security bugfixes for the forseeable future. (it doesn't explicitly say that support for libpng12 won't be dropped soon, but I believe it wasn't intentional.) Cheers, -- Raphael Geissert - Debian Developer www.debian.org - get.debian.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
