On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 02:51:01PM -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Thu, 2012-10-18 at 16:43 +0200, Adam Tkac wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 10:35:56AM -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote: > > > Adam Tkac (at...@redhat.com) said: > > > > I've just created > > > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/libjpeg-turbo-jpeg8-ABI page > > > > which > > > > contains plan how to successfully move from current jpeg6 API/ABI to > > > > more recent > > > > jpeg8 API/ABI for Fedora 19. > > > > > > > > All packages which depends on libjpeg.so will have to be rebuilt. Since > > > > I have > > > > provenpackager privileges, I will cook some script which will rebuild > > > > all > > > > pkgs automatically so no action will be required from maintainers. > > > > > > > > If there are no objections against this approach, I will start with > > > > this task > > > > next week. > > > > > > Ouch. I can see a need for a compat library for some period of time here - > > > the jpeg6 API has certainly been around for quite a long while. > > > > Hm, you are probably right. Since libjpeg is widely used, there might be > > some proprietary > > apps which require it. > > Yeah, I'm with Bill. I note you listed this as the 'contingency plan' > for the feature: > > Contingency Plan > > Create libjpeg-turbo-compat and libjpeg-turbo-compat-devel libraries > with jpeg6 API/ABI and ship them in distro. > > I'd suggest you should just make it a plan from the start to have the > -compat library available as part of the feature (so, really, just drop > step 4 of 'scope'), and have the 'contingency plan' be 'abandon ship and > go back to building with the jpeg6 API'.
I agree with this plan and modified the feature page appropriately. Regards, Adam -- Adam Tkac, Red Hat, Inc. -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
