Re: Why is it that png files are not dependable over the long haul

On 2018.08.06 14:20, Dustin Oprea wrote:
> The issue that you're having has existed for one month fourteen years  
> ago. Next year, it'll be fifteen years. In five years, it'll be about  
> twenty since it happened. It's in the distant past by this point.  
> Unfortunately, you were negatively affected by it. Unfortunately, not  
> many others were. Unfortunately, it's not a quick fix.
> 
> If you need to tweak libpng's behavior, just clone it, modify it,  
> build it, and keep it separate from the system version. No need for  
> it to get complicated.

Even more separated - use a virtual machine.  Use the same distro you  
are already using.  Even if you break it, you can start again with no  
loss of actual data.
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