bug#27556: libpng has wrong hash. [Fwd: Re: why has the hash for libpng-apng 1.6.28 changed?]

[ng0]

ng0 transcribed 2.5K bytes:
> Leo Famulari transcribed 2.2K bytes:
> > On Sun, Jul 30, 2017 at 09:37:22AM +0000, ng0 wrote:
> > > Efraim Flashner transcribed 4.1K bytes:
> > > > On Wed, Jul 26, 2017 at 06:56:51AM +0000, ng0 wrote:
> > > > > My really strong guess is that we never updated the hash for
> > > > > libpng-apng when the libpng was updated fron which libpng-apng
> > > > > inherits its version.
> > 
> > [...]
> > 
> > > > git blame shows that back in February I updated libpng to 1.6.28 from
> > > > 1.6.25, but that the last time libpng-apng was touched was by ng0 back
> > > > in January.
> > > > 
> > > > commit: 864738baaa7bb75c08647ccfc684736479e67f7f
> > 
> > Aha, that must be it!
> > 
> > > Okay, so I will send the update for libpng-apng (which due to its
> > > inheritance of libpng is just the hash) and I will also add a second
> > > commit which adds a comment above libpng that we must update libpng-apng
> > > when we update libpng, if that's already possible (libpng-apng might not
> > > immediately be up to date, but we don't update libpng immediately aswell
> > > due to it being a core-updates candidate).
> > 
> > I think we should give libpng-apng its own version because, as you said,
> > libpng-apng may not be developed at the same pace as libpng. This way,
> > we won't end up with a broken libpng-apng again.

I appended a patch how I understood your idea.
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