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Date:      Wed, 25 May 2011 23:02:39 +0400
From:      Andrey Chernov <ache@FreeBSD.ORG>
To:        "Mikhail T." <mi+thun@aldan.algebra.com>
Cc:        Dirk Meyer <dinoex@FreeBSD.ORG>, ports@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Turning APNG to on by default in graphics/png
Message-ID:  <20110525190239.GA46219@vniz.net>
In-Reply-To: <4DDD4A44.60306@aldan.algebra.com>
References:  <4DDD4A44.60306@aldan.algebra.com>

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On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 02:28:20PM -0400, Mikhail T. wrote:
> I'd like to see this option on by default now. I think, it's been available (off 
> by default) long enough and I, for one, always turn it on for completeness. 
> There used to be concerns about security of animated PNG code, but today I can 
> not find any advisories fresher than 2008:
> 
>     http://osvdb.org/show/osvdb/48766

Wrong place to find advisores related to subj. See 
http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/libpng.html
page, right below yellow tables. Latest one fixed Feb 3 2011.

> Various Mozilla applications will then be able to LIB_DEPEND on the installed 
> png instead of building their own versions.

FYI: apng is quick hack to overcome animated gifs limitations and libpng 
author is strongly against it, suggesting to use more flexible mng 
instead: http://www.libpng.org/pub/mng/

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