1 files changed, 7 insertions, 25 deletions
diff --git a/buildtools/debian/mkdeb b/buildtools/debian/mkdeb
index 8ca0f738..51d77cdb 100755
--- a/buildtools/debian/mkdeb
+++ b/buildtools/debian/mkdeb
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 #                                mkdeb
 ###############################################################################
 #
-#  This generates a Debian package file (.deb) to install Sourceforge
+#  This generates a Debian packge file (.deb) to install Sourceforge
 #  Netpbm on a Debian system.
 #
 #  This is especially useful because Debian does not have a good Debian
@@ -112,30 +112,12 @@ sub netpbmVersion($) {
 
 sub control($$) {
     my ($release, $architecture) = @_;
-#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
-#  The contents for the package control file, as a hash reference.  In the
-#  referenced hash, there is one key for each line of the control file.  The
-#  key and value in the hash are the key and value for the line of the control
-#  file.
-#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
-    # Because developers of some of the dependent libraries frequently switch
-    # to distributing versions not backward compatible with what they
-    # previously distributed, and Debian always packages the currently
-    # distributed version, it is virtually impossible to produce a Netpbm
-    # package that works in multiple Debian versions.  This program is coded
-    # to create a package that works on the Debian system the Netpbm
-    # maintainer currently uses to build the Debian packages he distributes.
-    # If you are building for any other version of Debian, you'll have to
-    # modify this code.
-
-    # Note that the backward incompatibility is usually only at a binary
-    # level, not source level.  And sometimes the only incompatibility for
-    # Netpbm purposes is that the soname has changed so that Linux will refuse
-    # to run a Netpbm program built for Debian N on Debian N-1.
-
-    # The following is for Debian 9.
-    
+# The Debian packaging system doesn't provide a way to express Netpbm's actual
+# prerequisites.  For example, Netpbm needs Version 6.2 or better of Libjpeg,
+# but there is no way to state that here.  Instead, we state Libjpeg 6.2
+# exactly.  This makes the Netpbm package less useful.
+
     my %control;
 
     my $debianNativeNetpbm = 
@@ -156,7 +138,7 @@ sub control($$) {
     $control{'Depends'} =
         'libc6, ' .
         'libjpeg62, ' .
-        'libpng16-16, ' .
+        'libpng12-0 | libpng16-16, ' .
         'libtiff5, ' .
         'libx11-6, ' .
         'libxml2, ' .