upcoming transition for webp package

Dear Debian colleagues, I'm writing because you maintain a package with a direct dependency in libwebp6. I'm planning to transition it to libweb8. Although I am not expecting any compatibility trouble, previous transitions have not always gone smoothly. So I'm sending this email as a heads up,

Re: [Pkg-phototools-devel] upcoming transition for webp package

On Sat, Feb 20, 2021 at 5:09 AM Sebastian Ramacher wrote: > On 2021-02-20 07:57:12 -0400, David Bremner wrote: > > Jeff Breidenbach writes: > > > > > Dear Debian colleagues, > > > > > > I'm writing because you maintain a package with a direct

looking for new package maintainer, libwebp

I am looking for a new maintainer for the Debian package libwebp. It's a great package, widely used, with a terrific upstream. The current version in Debian is several years old. I have just uploaded a new release to Experimental; there was a soname bump so I suspect it will be in the NEW queue