[Tilesathome] pngnq

[Matthias Julius]

Rodolphe Quiedeville <rodolphe at quiedeville.org> writes:

> Matthias Julius a écrit :
>> Rodolphe Quiedeville <rodolphe at quiedeville.org> writes:
>> 
>>> For Debian/Ubuntu users affeted by the pngnq bug, I propose this little
>>> patch. I prefer to patch tahconfig than install a non-official debian
>>> package.
>> 
>> Pngnq 0.5-3 in Debian unstable fixes the bug in pngnq.  It will
>> migrate to testing in 6 days.  Then the problem will have resolved
>> itself for Debian users.
>> 
>> So I don't think there is a need to patch the t at h client.
>
> IMHO it's better to have the process the easiest possible for end user,
> if we want more and more user to render t at h tiles we need to facilitate
> their job. So the answer please wait 6 days it's not a good answer.
>
>> Don't know when Ubuntu will have the update.
>
> We can wait but more and more Ubuntu's user will stop render tiles.

Why?

The bug doesn't prevent the client from rendering.  The client will
just produce 24bit tiles instead of 8bit ones.  This is just the same
as the client did until a short while ago.  The only difference now is
that it is emitting tons of messages about the issue, but they don't
hurt anything.

So I don't think it is unreasonable to ask users to ignore those
messages for a while and update their system after the new pngnq
package has entered Debian testing.  If people are really annoyed by
them they can install the package from unstable.

Matthias