Re: [gentoo-dev] Some tarballs still ship broken .png images that can't be viewed with libpng16, "Tracker" bug #468386

[Samuli Suominen <ssuominen@gentoo.org>]

On 08/04/14 22:26, Pacho Ramos wrote:
> El mar, 08-04-2014 a las 16:14 +0300, Samuli Suominen escribió:
>> It would take considerably amount of time to start extracting tarballs,
>> installing ebuilds, and reporting bugs about possible
>> broken .png files within packages.
>> The problem is broken IDAT lenght, an error that libpng15 still
>> gracefully ignored, but libpng16 no longer ignores.
>>
>> The bug, http://bugs.gentoo.org/468386
>> List created by Tobias at 2013 May,
>> https://bugs.gentoo.org/attachment.cgi?id=347306
>> <mailto:klausman@gentoo.org>
>>
>> This has been discussed on the ML before, and most important packages
>> got already fixed, but there are packages still
>> left. Any help addressing the issue is welcome, and I'm sending this
>> mail in hopes people will see packages on the lists
>> that intrest them, and fix them.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Samuli
>> <mailto:klausman@gentoo.org>
>>
> If there exists a tool that detects that broken png files, maybe a QA
> portage check (like the one used to detect broken .desktop files) could
> be added to help to detect and fix the problematic images :/
>
>

Pretty good idea, there is the script in python, and Portage is python,
maybe it can be adopted somehow.

The script is at, https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=466190#c11

- Samuli