Hi,

On Nov 27, 2014, at 17:18, Barry Kauler <[email protected]> wrote:

> The LZW compression patent on GIF images expired over ten years ago.
> Yes, 10, and T2 is still using libungif.
> 
> The guy who was maintaining both 'giflib' (the proper one, with LZW
> compression) and libungif (creates gifs without any compression),
> years ago archived libungif and now only maintains giflib.
> 
> giflib home:
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/giflib/
> 
> I have been using giflib in my local T2 for a few years. Time to contribute 
> it.
> 
> package/graphic/giflib.desc:
> 
> [I] Reading and writing gif images
> 
> [T] A library for reading and writing gif images.
> 
> [U] http://sourceforge.net/projects/giflib/
> 
> [A] Toshio Kuratomi <[email protected]>
> [M] Rene Rebe <[email protected]>
> 
> [C] extra/multimedia
> [F] CROSS
> 
> [L] OpenSource
> [S] Stable
> [V] 5.1.0
> [P] X -----5---9 120.400
> 
> [D] 0 giflib-5.1.0.tar.bz2 http://sourceforge.net/projects/giflib/files/
> 
> For a .cache file, the same one as for libungif will do.
> 
> There is no need for a .conf file.
> The installation of giflib will create libungif symlinks, for any
> package that is stuck in a time warp.
> 
> I did a sweep through 'package' directory and replaced all occurences
> of "libungif" with "giflib". These are the affected files:

Thanks for the tip, did not notice libgif, yet.

Committed revision 43425.

        René

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