Bug#742560: freeimage: diff for NMU version 3.17.0+ds1-1.1

[Tobias Frost]

Am Montag, den 25.01.2016, 21:23 +0000 schrieb Ghislain Vaillant:
> Thanks for providing the additional information I requested, Tobias.
> 
> I am still puzzled by a few things. First, the build of FreeImage
> 3.17.0 
> in Fedora 23 [1] and 24 [2] does not require patching the source
> code 
> for libpng16. This is also consistent with the fact that the
> FreeImage 
> 3.17.0 source code came bundled with a vendored copy of libpng
> 1.6.16 
> [3], which now both Debian and Fedora strip from their respective
> source 
> packages.
> 
> [1] http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/rpminfo?rpmID=6906784
> [2] http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/rpminfo?rpmID=7143896
> [3] http://freeimage.sourceforge.net/download.html
> 
> So how come that Fedora does not patch for libpng16 and we do?

I can't tell you without deeper analysis. However, without patch it
simply FTBFS with the typical symptoms of accessing the API the "old"
way. See: http://libpng.sviech.de/old/freeimage.build


> AFAIK, the main difference packaging-wise between Debian and Fedora
> is 
> that we run the testsuite.
> 
> Cheers,
> Ghis
>