-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 02-04-2005 02:15, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Sat, Apr 02, 2005 at 12:17:27AM +0200, Reine Johansson wrote: > > >>>>Please use the bundled version of GD. As it is now, It's not >>>>possible to use the function imagerotate() that is only available in >>>>the bundled version. > > >>>This isn't going to happen. It is a burden on the security team to >>>ship bundled copies of a library in a package; if these features of >>>the bundled GD library are important, they should be made available in >>>the upstream version. > > >>But why not take the bundled GD and create a new package >>(php4-bundled-gd). > > > Because that would still mean carrying around two copies of the same > library, which is still a burden on the security team. If you think Debian > needs to be shipping a different libgd version, please talk to the libgd2 > maintainer.
Can you provide me a patch implementing the imagerotate() function? I can then suggest upstream to adopt the improvement. Or you can do so directly if you like (upstream doesn't bit, to my knowledge ;-) ). As I understand it, the GD authro is not the most responsive one, and the PHP guys now maintains a fork of GD. Obviously that approach doesn't please the GD author, so if someone else than the PHP guys (Debian, for example) provides isolated, well-prepared suggestions for upstream inclusion that probably has a better chance than if done from PHP. Naturally, we would all benefit from a single source of GD, right? Regards, - Jonas Debian package maintainer of GD - -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist og Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ - Enden er nÃr: http://www.shibumi.org/eoti.htm -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFCTmTBn7DbMsAkQLgRAo+mAJ4qVrSrwMg485A+wE4SgUa5CPoViQCfdir/ K9HdP4epfBOvJpppVHkYgJg= =37AX -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
