Re: upstream abandoning libpng12

2011-01-12 Thread Raphael Geissert
Raphael Geissert wrote: > It appears that libpng upstream is going to abandon libpng12 by the end of > the year [1]. Luckily, RedHat and others still need to support it for many > years, meaning we wouldn't be alone when fixing security issues and the > like. After a discussion between upstream an

Re: upstream abandoning libpng12

2010-07-28 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le vendredi 23 juillet 2010 à 20:29 +0100, Adam D. Barratt a écrit : > On Fri, 2010-07-23 at 12:13 -0500, Raphael Geissert wrote: > > Switching to libpng 1.4.x for squeeze would require a transition. > > You missed the words "rather large" out of the above sentence. > > Assuming that I can count,

Re: upstream abandoning libpng12

2010-07-27 Thread Moritz Muehlenhoff
On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 08:29:43PM +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote: > On Fri, 2010-07-23 at 12:13 -0500, Raphael Geissert wrote: > > Switching to libpng 1.4.x for squeeze would require a transition. > > You missed the words "rather large" out of the above sentence. > > Assuming that I can count, the

Re: upstream abandoning libpng12

2010-07-23 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Fri, 2010-07-23 at 12:13 -0500, Raphael Geissert wrote: > Switching to libpng 1.4.x for squeeze would require a transition. You missed the words "rather large" out of the above sentence. Assuming that I can count, there are 580 source packages in the archive building a binary package which dep

upstream abandoning libpng12

2010-07-23 Thread Raphael Geissert
Hi, It appears that libpng upstream is going to abandon libpng12 by the end of the year [1]. Luckily, RedHat and others still need to support it for many years, meaning we wouldn't be alone when fixing security issues and the like. Anibal, what are your plans? do you know what upstream's plans