RM: libjpeg-mmx -- RoQA; RC-buggy, security-buggy, orphaned, dead upstream
Package: ftp.debian.org
Severity: normal
On Fri, Aug 11, 2006, Michael Ablassmeier wrote:
> hi Moritz,
>
> On Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 07:12:26PM +0200, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote:
> > I'd like to suggest to remove libjpeg-mmx, it adds libjpeg code duplication
> > requiring duplicate DSAs for libjpeg security problems, only provides static
> > libs, is dead upstream, RC buggy and according to Google the performance
> > gains are marginal.
>
> i also suggest to remove it from the archive. I was in contact with upstream's
> list while looking at #379497. According to them it is indeed dead upstream and
> full of other RC-alike bugs. As far as i can see there are no packages
> currently depending on libjpeg-mmx stuff other than texmacs which does declare
> a Recommend on `libjpeg-progs | libjpeg-mmx-progs'.
>
> bye,
> - michael
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Mohammed Adnène Trojette
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