Gentoo Archives: gentoo-amd64

From: Barry Schwartz <chemoelectric@×××××××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Libjpeg-Turbo Drops Newer ABIs
Date: Fri, 02 Aug 2013 18:50:39
Message-Id: 20130802185032.GA10907@crud
In Reply to: [gentoo-amd64] Libjpeg-Turbo Drops Newer ABIs by Frank Peters
1 Frank Peters <frank.peters@×××××××.net> skribis:
2 > Here is the Gentoo changelog for 1.3.0-r2:
3 >
4 > "Revert back to .so.62 with 2 functions backported from .so.8, namely
5 > jpeg_mem_dest() and jpeg_mem_src(). ABIs .so.7 and .so.8 are dead and
6 > shouldn't be used anywhere anymore."
7 >
8 > This sudden change required the re-emerge of a LOT of packages.
9 >
10 > I have not been able to find any background information on the
11 > reason for this change. Does anyone know the story behind this
12 > elimination of the newer JPEG ABI's and the step back to .so.62?
13 > Has any functionality, such as lossless cropping, been affected?
14
15 This seems to be the story, if you make some inferences:
16
17 http://www.libjpeg-turbo.org/About/Jpeg-9
18
19 Basically, it says 7, 8, and now 9 were all a mistake.

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Re: [gentoo-amd64] Libjpeg-Turbo Drops Newer ABIs Frank Peters <frank.peters@×××××××.net>