Re: adding optipng to extras

[dragoran <dragoran feuerpokemon de>]

Jonathan Underwood wrote:
> On 02/07/06, Till Maas <opensource till name> wrote:
> > yes, thanks for your comment, actually I was refering to the 
> > Guidelines in my
> > first email. Sorry, that I did not make this clear.
> > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Guidelines#head-17396a3b06ec849a7c0c6fc3243673b17e5fed90 
> >
> > says that packages should not include their own version of a library. 
> > This is
> > what OptiPNG does. Does this block OptiPNG from beeing added to Extras?
>
> Yes, I believe that is a blocker. You could package it to use the
> currently packaged version of that library though. Or convince
> upstream  OptiPNG folks to move to using the upstream library,
> submitting their patches if necessary. What library is it that they
> include?
>
> Jonathan
from the first post:
> It uses own version of zlib to get a better compression and pnglib 
> to even work.