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Bug#673542: libpng12-0_1.5.10-2 sends gdm3 and Xorg in an infinite loop, breaking the whole graphical system

July 05th, 2012 - 12:40 am ET by Nobuhiro Iwamatsu | Report spam
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Hi,


All those "compat" packages in 1.5.x are completely broken.

libpng15-15 does not have the same ABI as libpng12-0. So making
libpng12-0_1.5.10 a compat package depending on libpng15-15 and creating
symlinks makes absolutely no sense.
The same is true for libpng3 and the libpng12-dev package.



The package depending on libpng12 will hardly work, as you have pointed out.
However, this was due to be solved by transition of libpng15 altogether.
Regrettably, since some packages have not been supported yet, the transition to
libpng15 is not performed by wheezy.

And I have a feeling that this is not RC bug.
I change severity of this bug to important.

Best regards,
Nobuhiro

Nobuhiro Iwamatsu
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July 05th, 2012 - 12:40 am ET | Report spam
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Bug #673542 [libpng12-0] libpng12-0_1.5.10-2 sends gdm3 and Xorg in an infinite loop, breaking the whole graphical system
Bug #673645 [libpng12-0] libpng12: version PNG12_0 not found error
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#2 Julien Cristau
July 05th, 2012 - 06:00 am ET | Report spam

On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 13:30:41 +0900, Nobuhiro Iwamatsu wrote:

severity 673542 important
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Hi,

> All those "compat" packages in 1.5.x are completely broken.
>
> libpng15-15 does not have the same ABI as libpng12-0. So making
> libpng12-0_1.5.10 a compat package depending on libpng15-15 and creating
> symlinks makes absolutely no sense.
> The same is true for libpng3 and the libpng12-dev package.

The package depending on libpng12 will hardly work, as you have pointed out.
However, this was due to be solved by transition of libpng15 altogether.
Regrettably, since some packages have not been supported yet, the transition to
libpng15 is not performed by wheezy.



The main reason it's not being performed is that the libpng maintainers
have shown time and time again that they don't know what they are doing.

And I have a feeling that this is not RC bug.



Your feeling is wrong.

I change severity of this bug to important.



And I change it back.

Cheers,
Julien






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