Please stabilize media-libs/libpng-1.2.44 on sparc. Updates on old systems cannot proceed without a libpng-1.2.44 in place.
What do you mean? There shouldn't be any binary-only packages that depends on libpng-1.2 in Portage, that's why it was stabilized only for amd64 and x86 -- rest would be redudant (and cause unnecessary extra testing for an arch).
I have a Sparc box that hasn't been updated for 6 months. As libpng-1.2 was replaced by libpng-1.4, packages that used to depend on libpng-1.2 are failing to build. I'm currently running revdep-rebuild to recover from this situation.
that's wrong in so many levels... you dont need libpng-1.2 stable for recovery because: - libpng-1.2 is only for binary-only packages - the library is preserved by the libpng-1.4 ebuild for recovery - need to run the la. fixer script libpng-1.4 comes with (in postinst message) and as a result run `revdep-rebuild --library libpng12.so.0`, see below: - might need to run `emerge -1 cairo pango gtk+` to get them re-emerged before revdep-rebuild (known issue with revdep-rebuild reordering). - if you start to emerge libpng-1.2, and then hit ctrl-c after pkg_setup() it will erase itself as fallback to prevent file collision - since it's very unlikely sparc will ever get binary-only packages depending on libpng-1.2 in portage, it makes no sense to stabilize it
