[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#662379: Bug#662379: Bug#662379: insighttoolkit: Please Build-Depends on libpng-dev, change from libpng12-dev

Luis Ibanez luis.ibanez at kitware.com
Sun Mar 11 23:33:52 UTC 2012


Steve,

We could look into updating the ITK dependency on
PNG to use 1.5, once we resume the maintenance
cycle of ITK in a couple of weeks.

I'm not sure if that is too late for the current packaging
that you are working on...

    Luis


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2012/3/4 Steve M. Robbins <steve at sumost.ca>:
> block 662379 by 648136
> thanks
>
> On Mon, Mar 05, 2012 at 01:06:44PM +0900, Nobuhiro Iwamatsu wrote:
>
>> Libpng maintainers plan transition of libpng[0].
>> Version 1.2 is used for libpng of current debian, but will shifts
>> to version 1.5 in this transition.
>> Your package still does it depending on libpng12-dev.
>
> Yes, and insighttoolkit cannot change because PNG 1.5
> breaks the API; see 648126.
>
> Either libpng 1.5 needs to be made API compatible or a suitable
> modification needs to be made to insighttoolkit upstream.
>
> Regards,
> -Steve
>
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