Source: graphicsmagick Version: 1.4+really1.3.40-4 Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-Cc: carandraug+...@gmail.com
Dear Maintainer, A long time ago GraphicsMagick (and ImageMagick) were built with the --quantum-depth option set to 8. Both are now being built with it set to 16. I think that change was quite reasonable and a good default. I'm requesting to have an alternative package built with quantum depth set to 8. This will reduce memory usage by half and make operations faster for 8 bit (per channel) images (the vast majority). The current package names already encode the quantum-depth option used and in the case of ImageMagick, here's even packages built with and without hdr support. Because of this, I feel that a lot of the work is already in place. I'm happy to provide patches if this request meets with positive interest and someone is willing to review the patches. Best wishes David -- System Information: Debian Release: 12.2 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 6.1.0-13-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads; PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_GB:en Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled
