[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#741890: arb: FTBFS with libpng16

[Elmar Pruesse]

Hi Andreas!

The 6.0rc1 should come out this week. There are only a few minor things
left to do (such as writing the announcement).

As these things go, there will probably be a 6.0rc2, though. So while
I'd love to see the exposure from getting the rc1 into unstable, I'm not
up to date on Debian policy. The stability of the rc1 is much higher
than when we did the 5.0, so I feel very much at ease with it. Since the
5.5 doesn't work on OSX 10.9, Matt Cottrell will also be uploading the
rc into MacPorts soon (if he hasn't already).

You can find a source tarball here:
ftp://ftp.arb-silva.de/ARB/builds/tagged/arb-5.21/

Elmar

On 03/17/2014 08:56 AM, Andreas Tille wrote:
> Hi Elmar,
> 
> On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 05:18:23AM +0100, Elmar Pruesse wrote:
>> Hi!
>>
>> Upstream here :)
> 
> Wow, that's quick response time! ;-)
>  
>> I can confirm the issue, we fixed it in r9003
>> (http://bugs.arb-home.de/changeset/9003). Since ARB 6 is just about
>> ready, we won't do any more releases in the 5.x series, so I've
>> backported the fix for you (patch attached).
> 
> Thanks for the patch.  Since the libpng transition might take some time
> would you consider that it might be sensible to wait for arb 6 and
> simply fix the problem with this new version.  I think if it is a matter
> of say 1-2 weeks this strategy makes sense.  Otherwise I might upload
> the patched package.
> 
> Kind regards and many thanks for your really quick help
> 
>       Andreas.
>