Bug#717076: tech-ctte: Decide what jpeg library the Debian project will use
* Simon McVittie:
> That package might have been ioquake3, which needs the jpeg_mem_src from
> libjpeg8 (I think it was actually added in libjpeg7) to allow decoding
> JPEGs from a memory buffer instead of a libc FILE*. I suspect that's
> a somewhat common use-case, and it isn't part of the libjpeg62 ABI
glibc offers fmemopen, though, so for Debian, that isn't a real
obstacle.
But what are web browsers doing? Certainly, they need something more
portable.
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