Bug#820095: libgdk-pixbuf2.0-dev: Please relax dependency with libpng12-dev

Tue Apr 5 12:38:10 UTC 2016

On Tue, Apr 05, 2016 at 09:01:12PM +0900, Hideki Yamane wrote:
> diff -urN gdk-pixbuf-2.32.3.orig/debian/control.in gdk-pixbuf-2.32.3/debian/control.in
> --- gdk-pixbuf-2.32.3.orig/debian/control.in    2016-01-28 02:24:01.000000000 +0900
> +++ gdk-pixbuf-2.32.3/debian/control.in 2016-04-05 10:47:01.439479341 +0900
> @@ -69,7 +69,7 @@
>           gir1.2-gdkpixbuf-2.0 (= ${binary:Version}),
>           libglib2.0-dev (>= 2.37.6),
>           libx11-dev,
> -         libpng-dev,
> +         libpng-dev | libpng12-dev,
>           shared-mime-info
>  Description: GDK Pixbuf library (development files)
>   The GDK Pixbuf library provides:

No, this is wrong, and still would get the build failure.

The correct solution iy to make gdk-pixbuf mention libpng.pc in Requires,
which would work for both 12 and 16.

Regards,

Rene