Re: PNG crush NMU

2006-02-07 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, Following the suggestion of Thomas Viehmann I joined the "png-mng-implement" list where the development of libpng is discussed by many including among them the author of pngcrush. My posting there let to the following thread: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=9575058&

Re: PNG crush NMU

2006-01-27 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Dear Thomas, On Fri, 27 Jan 2006, Thomas Viehmann wrote: > You might also consider asking on the png-mng-implement list. It looks > like the current maintainer of libpng is also the author of pngcrush, so > there might be a chance of getting some good advice there. Thanks for this pointer. I have

Re: PNG crush NMU

2006-01-27 Thread Thomas Viehmann
Hi Kapil, Kapil Hari Paranjape wrote: > I have submitted a new patch report to the relevant bugs with an > alternative solution. Let us see what the maintainer thinks of the > new patch. Um, are you sure that there aren't any public functions in libpng to achieve the same? As a wild guess (really

Re: PNG crush NMU

2006-01-27 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, In response to On Thu, 26 Jan 2006, Russ Allbery wrote: > Ugh, that's not a very good solution. That means that the next time > there's a security hole in zlib or libpng, which hasn't been uncommon, it > may also affect pngcrush and someone has to remember to update it as well. > This mak

Re: PNG crush NMU

2006-01-27 Thread Bas Zoetekouw
Hi Kapil! You wrote: > I've prepared an NMU of pngcrush that applies currently available > patches and closes the RC bugs on it. The files are under > http://www.imsc.res.in/~kapil/debian/pngcrush/ > > Sepcifically, this patched version does not make use of zlib1g and > libpng as packaged

Re: PNG crush NMU

2006-01-26 Thread Russ Allbery
Kapil Hari Paranjape <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've prepared an NMU of pngcrush that applies currently available > patches and closes the RC bugs on it. The files are under > http://www.imsc.res.in/~kapil/debian/pngcrush/ > Since I am not a DD I request one of the QA team who *are* to

PNG crush NMU

2006-01-26 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, I've prepared an NMU of pngcrush that applies currently available patches and closes the RC bugs on it. The files are under http://www.imsc.res.in/~kapil/debian/pngcrush/ Since I am not a DD I request one of the QA team who *are* to please sponsor the upload. Before you do however