[arch-dev-public] Some PNG images won't work with libpng 1.6

Evangelos Foutras evangelos at foutrelis.com
Sat May 18 11:04:46 EDT 2013


On 06/05/13 09:12, Evangelos Foutras wrote:
> On 3 May 2013 14:36, Evangelos Foutras <evangelos at foutrelis.com> wrote:
>> It's not clear whether future libpng 1.6.x versions will be able to load
>> these, apparently invalid, PNG images.
> 
> Looks like there's probably going to be a workaround in libpng 1.6.3:
> 
> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=841734#c10
> 
> The commit is the following:
> 
> http://sourceforge.net/p/libpng/code/ci/127b08a265f99ce517ea31ec7988a91fc17da4d9/
> 
> I'll give it a go on the previously failing PNGs in a couple of hours.

Unfortunately, this workaround won't make it into 1.6.3:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=841734#c12

I've reinstated the todo list with the remaining 10 packages; these
should be fixed before we update libpng to 1.6.3 (not yet released).


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