Hi Bill and Debian Developers, while doing work on GD Library 2.1.0 it was discovered there's encoding incompatibility introduced by libjpeg8/9 [1]. While doing further research I have found that Fedora has switched to libjpeg-turbo[2] (for reasoning please read the referred email). Ubuntu (and Steam) is also using libjpeg-turbo as base jpeg library. SuSE has also switched to libjpeg-turbo some time ago (just had a quick chat with it's maintainer).
Debian has already open ITP[3] #602034 for libjpeg-turbo, which support libjpeg62 API/ABI and also some important bits of libjpeg8. As libjpeg is one of the base libraries of the system, I think it might be a good idea to discuss this project wide. Also although I have an opinion (as you might have guessed from this email) that we should try to be aligned with other distributions and the reasoning for not going for , I will be happy with whatever result will end-up. My proposal is: A. Add libjpeg-turbo to Debian archive (that's easy) B. Add required provides/alternatives for libjpeg62-dev and libjpeg8-dev (where API/ABI match) C. Decide which package should provide default libjpeg-dev library 1. https://bitbucket.org/libgd/gd-libgd/issue/50/tests-jpeg-jpeg_readc-fails-on-debian 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2013-January/176299.html 3. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=602034 Ondrej -- Ondřej Surý <ond...@sury.org> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-wnpp-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CALjhHG9iNiA6kXfo0M+vgo-+xGZjpiX8jNXJguXv=rec9de...@mail.gmail.com
