"Steve M. Robbins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > About the new SONAME for imlib. It would be nice if we had > cooperation across distributions about this. I've emailed upstream a > few times over the the last month or two about picking a standard > soname, but have heard nothing back. For their "rawhide", RedHat went > ahead and linked in libpng3 *without* changing the SONAME. So I think > we can kiss cross-distribution compatibility goodbye.
Note that we went to some care to maintain the ABI of gdk_imlib, by forcing it to load libpng with private symbols. For plain imlib, my basic sentiment is that it's barely maintained, deprecated, not used by many things, and not a very good library... its non-maintenance is why this problem exists, since the real solution here is for upstream to release a parallel-installable new version that uses libpng3. Still the soname probably should be incremented. I can do that still, rawhide is just a beta, it's not released. Havoc -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
