I am struggling to see the case for an SRU here.
> We shouldn't be including an H.265 decoder in the Ubuntu squashfs
Why? What's the current harm to users?
Presumably this would only have a real impact on the 24.04.5 release in
August of this year, right? Why is this important enough to be fixed for
that point release?
> The practical consequence of this change is that HEIC images (the default
> photo format on iOS/macOS
> devices since iOS 11 and the default photo format for many recent Android
> phones) will
> not decode on a live session or freshly installed system unless the user
> explicitly
> installs libheif-plugin-libde265.
This sounds like a fairly common use case, no? So, again, what's the
motivation here?
** Changed in: libheif (Ubuntu Noble)
Status: Fix Committed => Incomplete
** Changed in: libheif (Ubuntu Questing)
Status: Fix Committed => Incomplete
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