Kapil Hari Paranjape <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This is somewhat long. My apologies in advance: > > A. As I posted on debian-qa earlier, the bugs mentioned in the subject > were discussed in png-mng-implement in the following thread. > > > http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=9575058&forum_id=43850 > > The upstream author of "pngcrush" (Glenn Randers-Pehrson) was > party to this discussion. > > B. Following this upstream has made available a version of pngcrush > called pngcrush-<version>-nolib.tar.bz2 that will fix the bug(s) > given above. The file is below http://pmt.sf.net/pngcrush with > current version 1.6.2. > > C. The maintainer of pngcrush has not updated the package for a long > time and there are a number of grave bugs open on the package. > Mails to the maintainer (in Dec 2005, Jan 2006) have not evoked any > response. > > D. A PNG optimizer similar called "optipng" which is similar in > function (but not in design) to "pngcrush" has recently entered > etch.
pngcrush was later orphaned -- <http://bugs.debian.org/353392> -- and is marked as being adopted by Alexander Schmehl. Alexander, do you still intend to adopt it? Does optipng render pngcrush unnecessary? > E. I have prepared a "pngcrush" package based on pngcrush-nolib.tar.gz. > I am willing to adopt this package if rules do not permit an NMU > for such major changes. [...] I can do a QA upload for you, but let's see what Alexander says first. Thanks, Matej -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
