Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
The history of libungif and giflib is that GNOME 1 (via imlib) began to use giflib for its GIF support. Red Hat and other distributions realized this would cause problems due to the Unisys LZW patent. I found a posting that showed how to create uncompressed gifs that wouldn't invoke the patent (Unisys patented the encoder and combined decoder+encoder... Not a standalone decoder) and created libungif as a drop in replacement for giflib to circumvent the patent issues. As time went on, bugfixes and a desire for new features led to a need for API/ABI changes. I sent fixes and enhancements to Eric Raymond to coordinate a release so we could continue to have compatible libraries. He wasn't interested in maintaining giflib any more so I took over maintenence of that. The sourceforge page reflects that libungif is a superset of esr's giflib but not the present sourceforge hosted giflib. I'll go carify the web page now. -Toshio
Thanks, OK great. It would be helpful if you could provide a proposed .src.rpm replacement for download and peer review to this list in a way similar to an Extras package review request. That way folks here can test it and suggest other improvements while we follow the process for replacement in Fedora Core.
I suppose we want both Obsoletes and Provides of the N-V-R of libungif and also matching -devel?
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