[Pkg-virtualbox-devel] Bug#662537: Bug#662537: virtualbox: Please Build-Depends on libpng-dev, change from libpng12-dev

Alexey Eromenko al4321 at gmail.com
Mon Mar 5 13:37:26 UTC 2012


On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 8:03 AM, Nobuhiro Iwamatsu <iwamatsu at nigauri.org> wrote:
> Source: virtualbox
> Version: 1:0.1.9998svn2543-2
> Severity: important
> User: libpng at packages.debian.org
> Usertags: libpng15-transition
>
> Hi,
>
> 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.

According to Oracle, different major versions of libpng are
incompatible, and therefore VirtualBox will refuse to compile with
versions newer than v1.2.x.

Is this true ?
Does VirtualBox actually compiles and works with newer libpng ?

-- 
-Alexey Eromenko "Technologov"





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