giflib for fc5

[Warren Togami]

Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> 
> The history of libungif and giflib is that GNOME 1 (via imlib) began to
> use giflib for its GIF support.  Red Hat and other distributions
> realized this would cause problems due to the Unisys LZW patent.  I
> found a posting that showed how to create uncompressed gifs that
> wouldn't invoke the patent (Unisys patented the encoder and combined
> decoder+encoder... Not a standalone decoder) and created libungif as a
> drop in replacement for giflib to circumvent the patent issues.
> 
> As time went on, bugfixes and a desire for new features led to a need
> for API/ABI changes.  I sent fixes and enhancements to Eric Raymond to
> coordinate a release so we could continue to have compatible libraries.
> He wasn't interested in maintaining giflib any more so I took over
> maintenence of that.  The sourceforge page reflects that libungif is a
> superset of esr's giflib but not the present sourceforge hosted giflib.
> 
> I'll go carify the web page now.
> 
> -Toshio
> 

Thanks, OK great.  It would be helpful if you could provide a proposed 
.src.rpm replacement for download and peer review to this list in a way 
similar to an Extras package review request.  That way folks here can 
test it and suggest other improvements while we follow the process for 
replacement in Fedora Core.

I suppose we want both Obsoletes and Provides of the N-V-R of libungif 
and also matching -devel?

Warren Togami
wtogami at redhat.com