[Debian-astro-maintainers] Bug#810209: yt: Please update dependency on libpng-dev

[Mattia Rizzolo]

On Thu, Jan 07, 2016 at 10:19:28AM +0100, tobi at debian.org wrote:
> Package: yt
> Severity: important
> User: libpng at packages.debian.org
> Usertags: libpng16-transition
> 
> Dear yt maintainers,
> 
> Currently we are preparing the transition of libpng1.2 to libpng1.6.
> The transition bug is #650601.
...
> Howver, yt (build-)depends an versioned development package
> libpng12-dev. Please update your (build-)depends to libpng-dev to
> help in the transition.

To me it seems like this build-dep is totally useless, as the produced
binaries don't have a dependency on the lib.
If it is actually needed for a the build there is something fishy and
the build system is most probably buggy.

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