Em 06-04-2018 07:19, Rogério Brito escreveu: > Hi, Herbert. > > On Thu, Apr 5, 2018 at 11:52 AM, Herbert Fortes <terb...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Em 05-04-2018 06:57, Rogério Brito escreveu: >>> The upstream of pngquant has released quite a few releases since 2.5.0 >>> that's currently in Debian. The current version is 2.11.7. >>> >>> Can we, please, have something newer than the current version? >> >> It is stopped because of a dependency: >> >> pngquant (2.8.2-1) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium >> >> TODO: * Needs packaging of >> https://github.com/ImageOptim/libimagequant >> (but no new packages for Stretch ...) >> * check whether CVE-2016-5735 is fixed in latest upstream > (...) > > Ah, I see... I didn't know that newer versions of the package required > a new library...
I think the project was splitted. version 2.8 ----------- - libimagequant is a separate project The maintainer is very active. And I think the packages - pngquant and libimagequant - should walk together. > > BTW, taking a look at the repository for the library, it has bindings > for a lot of languages and, perhaps, they should be built as needed, > since, otherwise, they may be bloating the archive and never be used > (depending if clients in the archive use this library)... I saw that too. I do not know what to do exactly (right now). > >> I can send an ITP and try to do the Debian package if that helps. > > That would be awesome, if you could do that, because the lack of SSE2 > optimization (if I understood things correctly with the current > binaries) is a pain with amd64 systems (especially on my Core 2 Duo > notebook that is already being loaded with some image processing tasks > and trying to help the kernel team with support for the recent > oversized armel kernels). > As said, the maintainer is very active. Let's wait a few days. Regards, Herbert