[bug] libpng broken using BazelDeps

[nedrebo]

Describe the bug

Environment: See reproducer

Error:

11.05 ======== Finalizing install (deploy, generators) ========
11.05 conanfile.txt: Writing generators to /tmp
11.05 conanfile.txt: Generator 'BazelDeps' calling 'generate()'
11.05 ERROR: Error in generator 'BazelDeps': libpng/1.6.44: Cannot obtain 'location' for library 'png' in ['/home/ubuntu/.conan2/p/b/libpn1d371201fdd0d/p/lib']. You can specify 'cpp_info.location' directly or report in github.com/conan-io/conan/issues if you think it should have been deduced correctly.

How to reproduce it

Build the Dockerfile below to reproduce:

docker buildx build .

Dockerfile:

FROM ubuntu:24.10

RUN apt-get --yes update
RUN apt-get --yes install pipx g++ cmake

USER ubuntu

RUN pipx install conan

RUN cat <<EOF > /tmp/conanfile.txt
[requires]
libpng/1.6.44

[generators]
BazelDeps
EOF

RUN ~/.local/bin/conan profile detect
RUN ~/.local/bin/conan install /tmp --build=missing

[franramirez688]

Hi @nedrebo

Thanks a lot for reporting this. Yes, I can confirm this is a bug 😭
I'm proposing this #17421 to solve the issue.

[memsharded]

Closed by #17421, it will be in next Conan 2.11 release. Thanks again for the report.