[IcedTea6 1.10] RFC: Add support for libpng 1.5

[Dr Andrew John Hughes]

On 16:30 Tue 29 Mar     , Xerxes Rånby wrote:
> On 2011-03-29 16:12, Dr Andrew John Hughes wrote:
> > The attached patch adds support for libpng 1.5 and was contributed
> > by Alexis Ballier via the Gentoo bug database:
> >
> > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=356743
> >
> > The patch is already on HEAD and I'd like to add it to the 1.10
> > branch.  It still compiles fine against libpng 1.4.5.
> >
> > Ok for 1.10?
> >
> > 2011-03-28  Andrew John Hughes  <ahughes at redhat.com>
> > 	Patch contributed by: Alexis Ballier <aballier at gentoo.org>
> >
> > 	* Makefile.am: Add patch.
> > 	* THANKYOU: List Alexis.
> > 	* NEWS: Updated.
> > 	* patches/g356743-libpng-1.5.patch:
> > 	Patch to build against libpng 1.5.
> >
> 
> Please let us do some testing before pushing this to the 1.10 branch.
> Some GNU/Linux systems are still using fairly old versions of libpng like 1.2.42 that currently builds IcedTea6-1.10 fine.
> it would be headache to introduce regressions on the branch.
> 
> What are the lowest version of libpng that we want to support?
> 

Well let's see what the results are first, but if it's a choice of
supporting 1.5 or 1.2 in 1.10, then we need to support 1.5 as 1.10 is
going to be around for a while.

I'm surprised any distro using something as new as 1.10 is still on
such an older version of libpng.

> Cheers
> Xerxes
> 
> 

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Andrew :)

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