Re: [gentoo-amd64] Libjpeg-Turbo Drops Newer ABIs

[Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Aug 2, 2013 at 10:45 AM, Frank Peters <frank.peters@comcast.net> wrote:
> Libjpeg-turbo has been the default jpeg image processor on Gentoo
> for some time now.  But when I updated my system recently, the latest
> (unstable) libjpeg-turbo-1.3.0-r2 seems to have taken a giant step
> backward.  Here is the Gentoo changelog for 1.3.0-r2:
>
> "Revert back to .so.62 with 2 functions backported from .so.8, namely
> jpeg_mem_dest() and jpeg_mem_src(). ABIs .so.7 and .so.8 are dead and
> shouldn't be used anywhere anymore."
>
> This sudden change required the re-emerge of a LOT of packages.
>
> I have not been able to find any background information on the
> reason for this change.  Does anyone know the story behind this
> elimination of the newer JPEG ABI's and the step back to .so.62?
> Has any functionality, such as lossless cropping, been affected?
>
> Frank Peters
>
>

Looking around a bit more I found this in an Ubuntu notice:

  * Update debian/copyright:
    - add RSA Data Security copyright (md5).

The rest looks fairly innocuous to me.

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libjpeg-turbo/+changelog

I didn't find anything in CERT.

- Mark