Re: [CTTE #717076] Default libjpeg implementation in Debian

2014-08-11 Thread Thorsten Glaser
On Thu, 31 Jul 2014, Don Armstrong wrote: > 11. The prospective libjpeg-turbo maintainer should propose an appropriate Who *is/are* the maintainer(s), anyway? There are packaging bugs being ignored, and there is an open bug on a non-release architecture whose suggested workaround (or possibly fi

Re: Bug#717076: [CTTE #717076] Default libjpeg implementation in Debian

2014-08-11 Thread Ian Jackson
Bill Allombert writes ("Bug#717076: [CTTE #717076] Default libjpeg implementation in Debian"): > I am concerned that the rationale for this decision contains misconceptions > about the IJG JPEG library. Given the public nature of this announcement, I > cannot completly ignore t

Re: [CTTE #717076] Default libjpeg implementation in Debian

2014-08-11 Thread Ondřej Surý
Hey all, tech-ctte bug was opened last July 2013. Bill you had a year to provide an evidence or arguments why we should not switch away from jpeg8. You have refused to take part in the discussion, and yet now after the decision has been made, you come with backhand arguments with no references...

Re: [CTTE #717076] Default libjpeg implementation in Debian

2014-08-09 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sat, 09 Aug 2014, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > This is not really relevant. What is relevant, however, is that nobody is > > disputing that libjpeg8 produce higher quality images than libjpeg62 when > > decompressing standard JPEG images. > > If this is true, it is a concern: at least

Re: [CTTE #717076] Default libjpeg implementation in Debian

2014-08-09 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sat, 09 Aug 2014, Bill Allombert wrote: > > 3. libjpeg8 adds new features to the JPEG image format. These have > > however been rejected from the ISO standard, and their > > contributions to image quality and compression appear to be widely > > disputed. > > This is not really rel

Re: [CTTE #717076] Default libjpeg implementation in Debian

2014-08-08 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sat, 2014-08-09 at 00:49 +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: [...] > > 8. In general it does not appear that other Debian packages require > > the libjpeg8 API. The sole exception appears to be a "decode from > > memory buffer" interface (jpeg_mem_src/jpeg_mem_dest), which is > > implemen

Re: [CTTE #717076] Default libjpeg implementation in Debian

2014-08-08 Thread Bill Allombert
On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 07:24:29PM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote: > The technical committee was asked in #717076 to decide whether > libjpeg8 or libjpeg-turbo would be the default libjpeg implementation. > The decision is below: Dear CTTE, I am concerned that the rationale for this decision contains