[oi-dev] Missing link in jpeg6-turbo

[Udo Grabowski (IMK)]

On 16-01-2025 16:17, Marcel Telka wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 16, 2025 at 04:02:55PM +0100, Udo Grabowski (IMK) wrote:
>> Since an OS should not only serve the developers of the OS, but
>> also expect simple users having installed "other" software, existing
>> compatibility links should always be retained, since they are there
>> because they are part of the expected linkage scheme (although it
>> would clearly be advantageous if the software could just link to
>> the generic lib*.so file, but most libraries are nowadays not
>> version-downward compatible...).
> 
> We cannot maintain and sustain everything forever.  Once something is
> dead upstream it will sooner or later very likely die in OpenIndiana
> too.
> 
> In this particular case you are just lucky because libjpeg6-turbo (which
> could be considered as a compatibility package) is still included in OI
> just because it is (currently) cheap to keep it there and also because
> the upstream libjpeg-turbo still maintains the API version 6.  Once
> either changes then the version 6 of the API will be removed from OI
> too.  Please note that both V6 and V7 of the libjpeg API are unused by
> OpenIndiana.
> 

My usual work scheme is to take whatever is left in OI for older
packages (but then I expect it to be complete), and copy it to
/usr/local/ if it's obsoleted in OI. That way we still have zombies
like 'cheese' still working on the new OI versions, and we have a
lot of large more important packages for us that no one would dare to
recompile any time soon...

So obsolete as you like, but keep still existing packages or
replacements complete as long as they stay active. Of course, slight
oversights like the current one happen, that's not a problem as long
as they can quickly be corrected.
-- 
Dr.Udo Grabowski  Inst.of Meteorology & Climate Research IMKASF-SAT
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