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

[Peter Robinson]

On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 4:05 PM, Bruno Wolff III <bruno at wolff.to> wrote:
> 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.

The problem is that a lot of the core packages in the build root
depend on libpng so you can't bump the soname without having the
compat one around because you can't rebuild a whole bunch of packages
that need to be installed to rebuild them so you end up in a chicken
and egg senario.... bump libpng soname ...... can't install build
chain to rebuild other packages because a required soname dependency
has disappeared :-)

Peter