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On Fri, 19 Dec 2025 17:12:46 +0100 Florian Ernst <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> On Thu, Dec 18, 2025 at 06:10:14PM -0500, Boyuan Yang wrote:
> > A new upstream release of libwebp has released on July 2025.
> > Please consider providing it in Debian. Thanks!
> 
> +1 from my side. For reference, the upstream lists
> 
> | libwebp-1.6.0
> | 
> | - 6/30/2025 version 1.6.0
> |   This is a binary compatible release.
> |   API changes:
> |     - libwebp: WebPValidateDecoderConfig
> |   * additional x86 (AVX2, SSE2), general optimizations and compression
> |     improvements for lossless
> |   * `-mt` returns same results as single-threaded lossless (regressed in
> |     1.5.0, #426506716)
> |   * miscellaneous warning, bug & build fixes (#393104377, #397130631,
> |     #398288323, #398066379, #427503509)
> |   Tool updates:
> |     * cwebp can restrict the use of `-resize` with `-resize_mode` 
> (#405437935)
> 
> However, I feel a bit concerned regarding the maintenance of this
> package: it seems that most of the uploads of the recent years have been
> provided by you, Boyuan Yang, via NMUs, and you now filing this bug here
> seems to indicate you don't indend to continue doing so. Or did I
> misinterpret that?
> 
> Adding to that, it seems that the last maintainer update has been
> 1.2.2-2 as provided on 14 Mar 2022.
> 
> So, what it the maintainer state of this package? Jeff, are you still on
> board? Please note that I don't intend to blame, but rather I am
> checking whether some support might be needed.

I believe keep maintaining with NMU is not a proper solution.
Please let me know whether you are open in adding package co-maintainer
or still plan to maintain the package in the long term.

Thanks,
Boyuan Yang

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