I've been asked to write a news item for jpeg upgrade by few developers. Personally I don't see it's required, it's a default library upgrade, but here's my attempt:
Title: Upgrade from media-libs/jpeg 6b to 7 Author: Samuli Suominen <ssuomi...@gentoo.org> Content-Type: text/plain Posted: 2009-09-22 Revision: 1 News-Item-Format: 1.0 Display-If-Installed: media-libs/jpeg Since media-libs/jpeg-7 the .so version changed from libjpeg.so.62 to libjpeg.so.7. This will break temporarily a lot of packages, including environments like Gnome, Xfce4 or KDE. You will need to run revdep-rebuild from gentoolkit package. Installing media-libs/jpeg-compat isn't the correct solution because the package is meant to be used only with binary only applications like games-strategy/savage2-bin where recompiling isn't an option. You can temporarily install media-libs/jpeg-compat to get libjpeg.so.62 back so you'll be able to run applications again but it will most likely cause you random crashing issues. [1]. For more information see [2] and [3]. [1] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=279227 [2] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=285598 [3] http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-792906.html
