Bug#717076: [CTTE #717076] Default libjpeg implementation in Debian

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>]

On Sat, 09 Aug 2014, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> > This is not really relevant. What is relevant, however, is that nobody is
> > disputing that libjpeg8 produce higher quality images than libjpeg62 when
> > decompressing standard JPEG images.
> 
> If this is true, it is a concern: at least the bitmap editors and image

I meant to write "if this is true *in the general case*...

> processing utilities (gimp, imagemagick, etc) would regress on output
> quality.
> 
> Are there any examples of this output difference?  And I do mean between IJG
> libjpeg and libjpeg-turbo, not IJG libjpeg62 and IJG libjpeg8/9.

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