Bug 737054

Summary: Spicebird contains its own, embedded copy of the libpng library
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Jan Lieskovsky <jlieskov>
Component: spicebirdAssignee: Steven M. Parrish <smparrish>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Jan Lieskovsky 2011-09-09 13:31:10 UTC
+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #737052 +++

+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #737050 +++

Description of problem:
The version of the spicebird package, as shipped with Fedora release of 15 contains its own, embedded copy of the libpng package under path:

BUILD/spicebird-0.7.1/mozilla/modules/libimg/png

but the libpng package is available as a separate package in Fedora 15. Current version is libpng-1.2.46-1.fc15 (while spicebird includes v1.2.24). It is not a good practice to use own embedded copy of some tool / library, when the system wide equivalent is available (because in case of security flaw in libpng, both of libpng and spicebird packages will need to be updated).

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
spicebird-0.7.1-1.fc11

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. rpmbuild -bp spicebird.spec
2. cd BUILD/spicebird-0.7.1/mozilla/modules/libimg/png
3.  ls
CHANGES     LICENSE      MOZCHANGES    png.c      pngerror.c  png.h     pngpread.c  pngrio.c    pngrutil.c  pngtrans.c  pngwrite.c  pngwutil.c
libpng.txt  Makefile.in  mozpngconf.h  pngconf.h  pngget.c    pngmem.c  pngread.c   pngrtran.c  pngset.c    pngwio.c    pngwtran.c  README

  
Actual results:
spicebird contains its own, embedded copy of libpng library.

Expected results:
spicebird should require / use system wide libpng library.

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