On Wed, 2014-01-22 at 21:28 -0800, Austin English wrote:
It breaks applications (e.g., the Adobe Flash installer), it should be an error.
In that case many other fixme's also qualify as errors ;-) Loading mscms without liblcms2 support doesn't necessarily mean that the application will break. It may not actually use it or it may only use functions that don't depend on liblcms2.
On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 2:23 AM, Hans Leidekker hans@codeweavers.comwrote:
On Wed, 2014-01-22 at 21:28 -0800, Austin English wrote:
It breaks applications (e.g., the Adobe Flash installer), it should be
an error.
In that case many other fixme's also qualify as errors ;-) Loading mscms without liblcms2 support doesn't necessarily mean that the application will break. It may not actually use it or it may only use functions that don't depend on liblcms2.
Fair point, I was unclear. Similar cases (missing native OS libraries) tend to be errors. I've noticed this for at least gnutls and libxml2 on 64-bit distros that weren't yet fully multiarch. I had trouble finding the lcms issue until I scanned more carefully, since it wasn't an ERR ;).
I don't really see the harm in upgrading it (considering it is a misconfiguration/broken package, not missing functionality waiting for developer action).
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