Bug#741487: A useful fork for web authors wanting to optimize their images
While the name suggests that it's another general-purpose JPEG
library, it's actually closer to the jpegoptim optimization tool.
From the upstream README:
"'mozjpeg' is not intended to be a general JPEG library replacement.
It makes tradeoffs that are intended to benefit Web use cases and
focuses solely on improving encoding. It is best used as part of a Web
encoding workflow. For a general JPEG library (e.g. your system
libjpeg), especially if you care about decoding, we recommend
libjpeg-turbo."
mozjpeg ships two binaries that allow one to recompress JPEG files so
that they become smaller:
https://hacks.mozilla.org/2014/08/using-mozjpeg-to-create-efficient-jpegs/
I would personally like to use it in my web development projects, so
Pierre, if you'd like to reupload your package to mentors, I will take
a look at it.
Francois
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