Re: What to do with jbig2dec in wheezy and jessie
- To: Ola Lundqvist <ola@inguza.com>
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- Subject: Re: What to do with jbig2dec in wheezy and jessie
- From: Guido Günther <agx@sigxcpu.org>
- Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2017 08:45:05 +0100
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On Wed, Feb 01, 2017 at 10:53:57PM +0100, Ola Lundqvist wrote:
> Hi
>
> This is a very good question that I do not have a good answer to.
>
> It depends on:
> - Whether there are good regression test suites or not. If it exists
> and it pass then we are on a safer side.
> - What the changes are and whether we can oversee that. If they are
> too intrusive then that is not a good way forward.
> - Trust. If jbig2dec maintainers have a reputation to never break
> legacy, then we can trust it more.
> - Manual testing of course but that takes a lot of time.
abi-compliance-checker can help here I think.
Cheers,
-- Guido
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