Soname bump libpng (rawhide) - new libraries libpng.16.so and libpng16.so.16.2.0

Bruno Wolff III bruno at wolff.to
Wed May 22 15:05:40 UTC 2013


On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 09:39:06 +0100,
   Peter Robinson <pbrobinson at gmail.com> wrote:
>On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 12:17 PM, Kalev Lember <kalevlember at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>The way it was done last time on the 1.5 upgrade was to have a
>compat-libpng package that had the 1.5 release so that nothing broke
>while things were rebuilt and then once the vast majority of the
>rebuild happened it was then dropped to avoid this problem.

The last time a lot of packages needed patches to use 1.5. So it was expected 
to take a while to clean up all of the packages that used 1.2. I get the 
impression, that this time around simple rebuilds are expected to work 
in most cases.


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