On Sat, Mar 05, 2011 at 03:30:40PM +0100, Bill Allombert wrote: > My plan is to move to libjpeg8. libjpeg62 is a technological dead-end. > libjpeg8 support a larger part of the JPEG standard than libjpeg62. > When images that make advantage of that start to be widespread, users > will need libjpeg8 support.
from what I have heard, libjpeg8 doesn't not support "larger part of JPEG standard" but rather a "new proposal for Version 8.0" of JPEG specification: http://hardwarebug.org/2010/02/01/ijg-swings-again-and-misses/ personally, I feel really uncomfortable that out of blue new, incompatible jpeg format has been introduced. Even if debian starts supporting these features, there is huge amount of older installations and even hardware that only supports the "old" jpeg features. > > fedora moved to libjpeg-turbo, is there some convincing reason > > to go with abi-incompatible new libjpeg version instead? > My understanding is that Fedora plan to move to the libjpeg8 ABI. Do you have some source for this understanding? All I know they still use libjpeg-turbo for F15: http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/gitweb/?p=libjpeg-turbo.git -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
