Bug 1388899

Summary: Error: nothing provides libpng.so.3 needed by cnijfilter-ip1800series-2.70-1.i386
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: srakitnican <samuel.rakitnican>
Component: libpng12Assignee: Nikola Forró <nforro>
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Description srakitnican 2016-10-26 11:47:52 UTC 
Description of problem:

There is a problem installing no longer supported driver for a printer on Fedora.

I am a little bit confused about libpng versioning but, the package libpng12 on centos7 provides /usr/lib/libpng.so.3, I assume for compatibility reasons, while on Fedora it is not.

# rpm -qf /lib/libpng.so.3
libpng12-1.2.50-7.el7_2.i686


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

libpng12-0:1.2.56-2.fc24.i686


Actual results: dnf is unable to resolve dependencies, because no package provides /usr/lib/libpng.so.3


Expected results: Compatibility with older software if possible.


Additional info: Printer works if I add a symbolic link like: libpng.so.3 -> /usr/lib/libpng12.so.0.50.0.
Comment 1 Rex Dieter 2016-10-26 12:28:22 UTC 
The origin of libpng.so.3 being dropped is in commit:

* Sun Aug 18 2013 Rex Dieter <rdieter> - 1.2.50-5
- devel: fix so we can drop Conflicts: libpng-devel
- drop libpng-compat stuff

I suppose we could consider bringing it back, but likely in a different subpkg (so it doesn't get pulled in by default (via lsb support, for example)
Comment 2 Fedora Admin user for bugzilla script actions 2021-11-03 12:21:05 UTC 
This package has changed maintainer in Fedora. Reassigning to the new maintainer of this component.