[Pkg-osg-devel] Bug#662455: openscenegraph: Please Build-Depends on libpng-dev, change from libpng12-dev

[Alberto Luaces]

Sorry for the last empty message.

Alberto Luaces writes:

> Hi Manuel,
>
> "Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo" writes:
>
>> Hello Alberto,
>>
>
> [...]
>
>>
>> So I don't understand... cannot we just depen on libpng-dev (instead
>> of libpng12-dev) and upload and that's it?
>>

Yes, that's all. Somehow I was thinking that libpng12-dev didn't provide
libpng-dev.

>>
>> Rebuilding "gratuitously" (just to introduce cosmetic changes) is not
>> nice, but libpng is a vastly/widely used package and if we make the
>> change it will save other devels from having to NMU our package to get
>> libpng into the archive, so I'm in favor of doing that.  Or am I
>> missing something?
>>

Nothing at all. It was an artificial problem that I created myself.

-- 
Alberto