Upgrading libpng: shall we move to 1.4.x or 1.5.x?

[Nils Philippsen]

On Fri, 2011-11-04 at 13:12 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> In either case, as per the discussion at
> http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2011-October/157712.html
> I plan to provide the 1.2.x libpng shared library (and only the library,
> not its devel support files) in a libpng-compat subpackage for the time
> being.  So existing programs that depend on 1.2.x will continue to work,
> but it won't be possible to rebuild a package that has source-level
> dependencies on 1.2.x until those are fixed.  I think this is enough
> to avoid needing a special build tag for staging the rebuilds.

Any reason why the compat package ships the libpng-1.2.pc pkg-config
file? This made one of my packages use 1.5 headers, then later on
attempt to link to libpng12.so which failed.

Nils
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