Le 2015/04/28 21:19 +0200, Riccardo Mottola a écrit: > sorry if I did something wrong. I tried my best upgrading libpng and > asked for confirmation in the receipe changes.
Nothing wrong, it's just the fun of handling dependencies. I've dealt with such things in the past too. > what are these .pc files? perhaps package-config? Are they part of libpng? USed by pkg-config(1). > Should I change something in libpng? I have seen that a new, minor 1.6 > release is out so I planned an update anyway, although it is minor and > not a security concern like this update was. No, you only need to deal with organizing the rebuild of deps impacted by it. > but is this a problem with the reverse dependencies on libpng? Is this > just a matter of rebuilding them? Yep. > Sure, how do I do it best, how do I have a list of those issues? > libpng-dev has just once reverse dependency, however The website should tell you which packages depend on linpng, check their .pc files for inclusion of libpng15 as a dependency there. > http://www.opencsw.org/packages/CSWlibpng15-15/ > > shows 49 reverese dependencies, many of them don't appear to have a > maintainer/uploader. List them and check if they have -config scripts or .pc files that could need a rebuild with 1.6. Laurent
