Bug#602034: jpeg8 vs jpeg-turbo

[Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>]

On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 11:23:04AM +0200, Ondřej Surý wrote:
> Hi Bill and Debian Developers,
> 
> My proposal is:
> A. Add libjpeg-turbo to Debian archive (that's easy)
> B. Add required provides/alternatives for libjpeg62-dev and
> libjpeg8-dev (where API/ABI match)
> C. Decide which package should provide default libjpeg-dev library
> 
> 1. https://bitbucket.org/libgd/gd-libgd/issue/50/tests-jpeg-jpeg_readc-fails-on-debian
> 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2013-January/176299.html
> 3. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=602034

As IJG libjpeg maintainer, my plan is to move to libjpeg9 which has more feature.

I do not see libjpeg-turbo as a suitable replacement. It has
1) an different license.
2) much more security issues in a much smaller timeframe.
3) do not implement the full libjpeg8 ABI, nor the upcoming libjpeg9.

Cheers,
-- 
Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>

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