I'd like to see some test cases regarding "It fails to read gif images in both libvips and imagemagick" before approving the upload to xenial.
** Also affects: giflib (Ubuntu Xenial) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to giflib in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1580376 Title: Update giflib Xenial Package to 5.1.4 Status in One Hundred Papercuts: Confirmed Status in giflib package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in giflib source package in Xenial: New Bug description: Ubuntu Xenial Xerus currently ships with giflib 5.1.2-0.2, which is completely broken. It fails to read gif images in both libvips and imagemagick. Please update to 5.1.4-0.2, which is already published in Yakkety Yak. I have build the 5.1.4-0.2 package on Xenial and can confirm that it fixes both of the above mentioned problems. The upstream bug report is: https://sourceforge.net/p/giflib/bugs/94/ And fix release is 5.1.4. Prepared 5.1.4, test built in the PPA ubuntu-toolchain-r/ppa, and test-build all rdeps in main (emacs24 libgdiplus libwebp openjdk-8 tracker). Acceptance criteria: Builds, and tests succeed on all architectures. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/hundredpapercuts/+bug/1580376/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp