Michael Stahl <mstahl@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > read more carefully then: the git repo contains binaries built against > different Ubuntu baseline versions, the older of which have jpeg6 and > the newer jpeg8. [ shrug... ] So we'd be incompatible with some of them no matter what. But the bigger point is that we can't let Ubuntu make decisions for us about which versions of which packages Fedora is going to ship. Personally I concur with Adam's newfound opinion that jpeg8 is a dead end we shouldn't be going down. The original point of libjpeg (which succeeded beyond my wildest dreams really) was to promote universal JPEG file compatibility. The latest jpeg8 and jpeg9 versions are antithetical to that goal because they create nonstandard files that can't be read by standard implementations, including older libjpeg. If there were a huge improvement in compression performance maybe there'd be some chance of establishing a new de facto standard, but there isn't --- so this will accomplish little except to fragment the market. I don't think Fedora should be contributing to that, not even to the small extent of breaking ABI compatibility to be ABI-compatible with those library versions. regards, tom lane once organizer, Independent JPEG Group -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
