[oe] [meta-oe][PATCH] libpng12: add it back from oe-core

[Burton, Ross]

On 15 September 2017 at 11:03, Martin Jansa <martin.jansa at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> most of our prebuilt binaries (built outside OE, sometimes by other
> companies) are built against libpng12.
>
> Not because they must be, just because libpng12 was there when they started
> building them and nobody revisited that since then. Now I'm trying to get
> all those prebuilt binaries to be rebuilt against libpng 1.6 before we
> upgrade to Yocto 2.4. If I don't get them soon enough I'll need to keep
> libpng12 in one of our internal layer for a bit longer.
>
> So I agree it's outdated waste of time, but unfortunately still mis-used by
> some people.
>

That sounds like a great rationale to keep libpng12 in meta-oe.

Ross