On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 9:37 PM, Allan McRae <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > With the libjpeg-turbo-1.1 release, it now has libjpeg-8 compatibility and > is a suitable replacement for our version of libjpeg. For those that do not > know about libjpeg-turbo, you can get more info at > http://libjpeg-turbo.virtualgl.org/ . Essentially it is a lot faster, and > as a bonus from a distributions point of view its development is a lot more > open. > > So test the version out in [testing] and report any issues. It should be a > drop in replacement so hopefully nothing will become too broken!
Any backstory here why we are making the replacement? I see Fedora has done (is doing?) so, but no real discussion happened on our list first. -Dan
