[Bug 964161] Review Request: libpng15 - backwards compatibility for libpng

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Product: Fedora
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=964161

Kalev Lember <kalevlember@xxxxxxxxx> changed:

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--- Comment #1 from Kalev Lember <kalevlember@xxxxxxxxx> ---
(In reply to comment #0)
> One thing that's possibly questionable is whether to bother with a -devel
> subpackage at all; but if we're going to offer the library it should
> probably be possible to compile against it.

Up to you if you want to support building against the older libpng 1.5 or not.
I think there are two main use cases:

 1) Packages within Fedora package collection. Since libpng 1.5 and 1.6 APIs
are almost equivalent, I think it would make sense if all packages within
Fedora migrate to libpng 1.6 during the F20 release cycle, without exceptions.
To enforce that transition, it might make sense to just not ship the
libpng15-devel.

 2) Packages outside of Fedora. There are people who build packages for 3rd
party distribution and want to make them work on a wide range of Fedora
releases. I assume they'd find the libpng15-devel useful. (e.g. the request at
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=845110#c9 )

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