Bug#717076: tech-ctte: Decide what jpeg library the Debian project will use

2013-10-25 Thread Ondřej Surý
Hello Don, I am just checking whether the tech-ctte has all the info they need to make informed decision on this bug, or do you need any extra input? E.g. take all the time you need, but I want to be sure that it's not stalled on my or Mike's side and you are waiting for something from us now. Ch

Bug#717076: tech-ctte: Decide what jpeg library the Debian project will use

2013-08-15 Thread Riku Voipio
On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 02:52:43PM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote: > 1) Does libjpeg-turbo (LJT) now completely support the libjpeg8 ABI? I think it is more relevant to follow the ABI used by the rest of Linux community. Pretty much everyone but Debian is moving to LJT, most users still using the IJG

Bug#717076: tech-ctte: Decide what jpeg library the Debian project will use

2013-07-26 Thread Mike Gabriel
Hi Ondřej, On Fr 26 Jul 2013 13:43:05 CEST Ondřej Surý wrote: On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 6:16 PM, Don Armstrong wrote: On Thu, 25 Jul 2013, Mike Gabriel wrote: > I have been using the compat mode in LJT since Debian squeeze. As > part of upstream X2Go I build packages just like the one in Debia

Bug#717076: tech-ctte: Decide what jpeg library the Debian project will use

2013-07-26 Thread Mike Gabriel
Hi Don, et al. On Do 25 Jul 2013 18:16:06 CEST Don Armstrong wrote: On Thu, 25 Jul 2013, Mike Gabriel wrote: I have been using the compat mode in LJT since Debian squeeze. As part of upstream X2Go I build packages just like the one in Debian but with compat mode enabled. The packages (still 1.

Bug#717076: tech-ctte: Decide what jpeg library the Debian project will use

2013-07-26 Thread Ondřej Surý
On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 6:16 PM, Don Armstrong wrote: > On Thu, 25 Jul 2013, Mike Gabriel wrote: > > I have been using the compat mode in LJT since Debian squeeze. As > > part of upstream X2Go I build packages just like the one in Debian > > but with compat mode enabled. The packages (still 1.2.9

Bug#717076: Bug#632949: Bug#717076: tech-ctte: Decide what jpeg library the Debian project will use

2013-07-25 Thread Bill Allombert
On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 09:16:06AM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote: > On Thu, 25 Jul 2013, Mike Gabriel wrote: > This is a good start. However, the package should also build libjpeg-dev > or whatever is appropriate so that the transition can be completely > tested. It would also be good to have all of t

Bug#717076: tech-ctte: Decide what jpeg library the Debian project will use

2013-07-25 Thread Don Armstrong
On Thu, 25 Jul 2013, Mike Gabriel wrote: > I have been using the compat mode in LJT since Debian squeeze. As > part of upstream X2Go I build packages just like the one in Debian > but with compat mode enabled. The packages (still 1.2.90) can be > obtained from > > deb http://packages.x2go.org/deb

Bug#717076: tech-ctte: Decide what jpeg library the Debian project will use

2013-07-25 Thread Bill Allombert
On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 09:10:51AM +0200, Ondřej Surý wrote: > Compression several replies into one. > > > Couple of quick questions: > > > > 1) Does libjpeg-turbo (LJT) now completely support the libjpeg8 ABI? > > AFAIK it doesn't support the SmartScale, but it does support full libjpeg8 > ABI.

Bug#717076: tech-ctte: Decide what jpeg library the Debian project will use

2013-07-24 Thread Mike Gabriel
Hi Don, hi Ondřej, dear Committee members, dear all, On Mi 24 Jul 2013 09:38:23 CEST Don Armstrong wrote: Thus I think this needs a decision from tech-ctte before we make the switch to different implementation of libjpeg. I'm personally concerned about switching from IJG to an as-of-yet untes

Bug#717076: tech-ctte: Decide what jpeg library the Debian project will use

2013-07-24 Thread Don Armstrong
On Wed, 24 Jul 2013, Ondřej Surý wrote: > > Finally, it doesn't currently look like the libjpeg-turbo packages are > > at all in a state to replace the libjpeg8 or libjpeg6b packages. I'm not > > sure why the CTTE should rule to replace the IJG packages when the work > > and testing necessary to ma

Bug#717076: tech-ctte: Decide what jpeg library the Debian project will use

2013-07-24 Thread Ondřej Surý
Compression several replies into one. > Couple of quick questions: > > 1) Does libjpeg-turbo (LJT) now completely support the libjpeg8 ABI? AFAIK it doesn't support the SmartScale, but it does support full libjpeg8 ABI. More on the ABI compatibility can be read in the article where LJT author ex

Bug#717076: tech-ctte: Decide what jpeg library the Debian project will use

2013-07-23 Thread Don Armstrong
On Tue, 23 Jul 2013, Don Armstrong wrote: > http://bugs.debian.org/632949 has more information from a previous > discussion around 2011; I'm Cc:'ing that bug to make sure the logs have > a connection between the two. The ITP for libjpeg-turbo also has some emails: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bu

Bug#717076: tech-ctte: Decide what jpeg library the Debian project will use

2013-07-23 Thread Bill Allombert
On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 04:08:33PM +0200, Ondřej Surý wrote: > Package: tech-ctte > Severity: normal > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Dear Technical Committee, > > I have raised the question of libjpeg8 vs. jpeg-turbo as a default > libjpeg library for Debian in debian-dev

Bug#717076: tech-ctte: Decide what jpeg library the Debian project will use

2013-07-23 Thread Don Armstrong
http://bugs.debian.org/632949 has more information from a previous discussion around 2011; I'm Cc:'ing that bug to make sure the logs have a connection between the two. Couple of quick questions: 1) Does libjpeg-turbo (LJT) now completely support the libjpeg8 ABI? 2) Do we have benchmark results

Bug#717076: tech-ctte: Decide what jpeg library the Debian project will use

2013-07-17 Thread Simon McVittie
On 17/07/13 22:49, Ian Jackson wrote: > Perhaps we could just patch our libjpeg6b to have the necessary > function. It sounds like an API deficiency that it's missing. It appears that libjpeg-turbo 1.3+ has a libjpeg8-compatible jpeg_mem_(src|dest) by default, even if it's told to implement a lib

Bug#717076: tech-ctte: Decide what jpeg library the Debian project will use

2013-07-17 Thread Ian Jackson
Simon McVittie writes ("Bug#717076: tech-ctte: Decide what jpeg library the Debian project will use"): > Upstream's solution was to bundle libjpeg-6b plus a copy of the memory source, > then later to upgrade their bundled libjpeg to libjpeg-8c. Debian's solution > w

Bug#717076: tech-ctte: Decide what jpeg library the Debian project will use

2013-07-17 Thread Guillem Jover
On Wed, 2013-07-17 at 21:29:58 +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: > * Simon McVittie: > > That package might have been ioquake3, which needs the jpeg_mem_src from > > libjpeg8 (I think it was actually added in libjpeg7) to allow decoding > > JPEGs from a memory buffer instead of a libc FILE*. I suspect t

Bug#717076: tech-ctte: Decide what jpeg library the Debian project will use

2013-07-17 Thread Florian Weimer
* Simon McVittie: > That package might have been ioquake3, which needs the jpeg_mem_src from > libjpeg8 (I think it was actually added in libjpeg7) to allow decoding > JPEGs from a memory buffer instead of a libc FILE*. I suspect that's > a somewhat common use-case, and it isn't part of the libjpe

Bug#717076: tech-ctte: Decide what jpeg library the Debian project will use

2013-07-16 Thread Simon McVittie
On Tue, 16 Jul 2013 at 16:08:33 +0200, Ondřej Surý wrote: > I think we can use the libjpeg8 compatibility layer of libjpeg-turbo. > > Although I am not sure if it is really needed as there was only one > package needing new API from libjpeg8 I have heard and that should be > trivial to fix. That

Bug#717076: tech-ctte: Decide what jpeg library the Debian project will use

2013-07-16 Thread Ondřej Surý
Package: tech-ctte Severity: normal -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dear Technical Committee, I have raised the question of libjpeg8 vs. jpeg-turbo as a default libjpeg library for Debian in debian-devel[1], but we were not able to reach a consensus. I spoke to our DPL and he reco