On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 04:34:20PM -0500, Richard Laager wrote:
> I've attached a patch that drops into debian/patches.
> 
> -- 
> Richard

> Index: jpeg-8d/jpegtran.1
> ===================================================================
> --- jpeg-8d.orig/jpegtran.1   2009-12-28 13:38:22.000000000 -0600
> +++ jpeg-8d/jpegtran.1        2013-06-24 16:31:39.675724530 -0500
> @@ -28,7 +28,15 @@ followed by
>  .B cjpeg
>  to accomplish the same conversion.  But by the same token,
>  .B jpegtran
> -cannot perform lossy operations such as changing the image quality.
> +cannot perform lossy operations such as changing the image quality.  However,
> +"lossless" in this context only applies to the image data.  Extra markers can
> +be (and most are by default) dropped; see the
> +.B \-copy
> +argument for details.  This is especially important on modern "JPEG" files,
> +which are actually EXIF files; the EXIF metadata will be lost.  To avoid 
> this,
> +use
> +.B exiftran
> +instead.
>  .PP
>  .B jpegtran
>  reads the named JPEG/JFIF file, or the standard input if no file is

Could you make it more neutral ? Maybe advise to pass '-copy all' for full
lossless behaviour ? 

Note that jpegtran does not change the thumbnails, so it is safer in most
case to remove it than to leak the original image (with -crop).

Cheers,
Bill.


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