libjpeg-turbo API/ABI bump in F19 (transition from jpeg6 to jpeg8 API/ABI)

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Thu Oct 18 14:35:56 UTC 2012


Adam Tkac (atkac at redhat.com) said: 
> I've just created
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/libjpeg-turbo-jpeg8-ABI page which
> contains plan how to successfully move from current jpeg6 API/ABI to more recent
> jpeg8 API/ABI for Fedora 19.
> 
> All packages which depends on libjpeg.so will have to be rebuilt. Since I have
> provenpackager privileges, I will cook some script which will rebuild all
> pkgs automatically so no action will be required from maintainers.
> 
> If there are no objections against this approach, I will start with this task
> next week.

Ouch. I can see a need for a compat library for some period of time here -
the jpeg6 API has certainly been around for quite a long while.

Bill


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