Hi, On 30 March 2016 at 19:36, Heiko Becker <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > On 30.03.2016 18:06, Calvin Walton wrote: >> After zlin reported on IRC about a test failure when using "ijg-jpeg" >> implementation that don't happen for people using "jpeg-turbo", I was >> wondering why our default jpeg provider is still the ijg library. >> >> Many other distributions have switched to using jpeg-turbo (at least by >> default), including Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, RHEL, SUSE. As a result, a >> lot of current software isn't well tested with that library. > > this not only leads to failed tests, but quite some build failures with > jpeg:9 (qtwebengine, OpenSceneGraph, calligra to name a few). One > upstream has even closed a bug report about such an error with WONTFIX > (They accepted a patch later on though). > >> As a bonus, jpeg-turbo has committed to maintaining abi stability - no >> more rebuilding lots of packages with a new major jpeg library release. >> >> And so I propose to change the default provider used in Exherbo to >> jpeg-turbo. Does anyone have any objections to that? > > On the contrary, a big, fat +1 from me. Thanks for bringing this up.
Same here, big +1 > > Cheers, > Heiko > > _______________________________________________ > Exherbo-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.exherbo.org/mailman/listinfo/exherbo-dev _______________________________________________ Exherbo-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.exherbo.org/mailman/listinfo/exherbo-dev
