Hello Felix, or anyone else affected, Accepted giflib into xenial-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/giflib/5.1.4-0.3~16.04 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.
Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users. If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, and change the tag from verification-needed to verification-done. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed. In either case, details of your testing will help us make a better decision. Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance! -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to giflib in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1580376 Title: Update giflib Xenial Package to 5.1.4 Status in One Hundred Papercuts: Confirmed Status in giflib package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in giflib source package in Xenial: Fix Committed Bug description: Ubuntu Xenial Xerus currently ships with giflib 5.1.2-0.2, which is completely broken. It fails to read gif images in both libvips and imagemagick. Please update to 5.1.4-0.2, which is already published in Yakkety Yak. I have build the 5.1.4-0.2 package on Xenial and can confirm that it fixes both of the above mentioned problems. The upstream bug report is: https://sourceforge.net/p/giflib/bugs/94/ And fix release is 5.1.4. Prepared 5.1.4, test built in the PPA ubuntu-toolchain-r/ppa, and test-build all rdeps in main (emacs24 libgdiplus libwebp openjdk-8 tracker). Acceptance criteria: Builds, and tests succeed on all architectures. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/hundredpapercuts/+bug/1580376/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp

