Hi Riccardo,

> Am 27.03.2015 um 17:11 schrieb Riccardo Mottola <[email protected]>:
>>> On my own box I and up having libpng3.. Just to know about this oddity.
>>> 
>>> There are some security updates, I'll try my best updating libpng, but 
>>> wanted to now this oddity first.
>> If you don’t introduce another soname it should be fine, otherwise the same 
>> restrictions apply
>> as to e.g. the OpenSSL transition:
>> http://wiki.opencsw.org/project-openssl
>> Although it should be less of a problem now due to direct linking, but AFAIK 
>> this has not been
>> tested enough.
> 
> what do you mean by "soname change"? I see that libpng15 introduced a new 
> soname, bu hides it with a link
> 
> so libpng.so is then linked to libpng15.so.15.13.0
> 
> I thought of adding libpng16.so.16.xxx to follow this reasoning.

Essentially yes, the reasing is explained here:
  http://www.opencsw.org/manual/for-maintainers/shared-libraries.html


Best regards

— Dago

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