[php-maint] Bug#778596: php5-gd: imageantialias is still missing

[Vincas Dargis]

Package: php5-gd
Version: 5.6.5+dfsg-1
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

Quite some time ago bug #321237 was posted, noting that php5-gd used by Debian
has missing some funtions.

There is a comment (#71) stating that "There is also an ongoing work",
and since Jessie is comming, I have checked if previosly missing
imageantialias() is maybe already implemented, but sadly:

$ php -r "var_dump(function_exists('imageantialias'));"                                                                                                                           
bool(false)

I have asked about imageantialias() progress in libgd bug tracker:
https://bitbucket.org/libgd/gd-libgd/issue/115/backports-php-internal-functions-to-libgd#comment-13551981
....but with no response.

Is there any hope, any possibility to encourage, motivate libgd developers to
have it fixed since Jessie is out? Or it is already too late (because of freeze)
and we will have to recompile php with bundeled libgd for another 2-3 years..?



-- Package-specific info:
==== Additional PHP 5 information ====

++++ PHP 5 SAPI (php5query -S): ++++
apache2
cli

++++ PHP 5 Extensions (php5query -M -v): ++++
readline (Enabled for apache2 by maintainer script)
readline (Enabled for cli by maintainer script)
json (Enabled for apache2 by maintainer script)
json (Enabled for cli by maintainer script)
opcache (Enabled for apache2 by maintainer script)
opcache (Enabled for cli by maintainer script)
gd (Enabled for apache2 by maintainer script)
gd (Enabled for cli by maintainer script)
pdo (Enabled for apache2 by maintainer script)
pdo (Enabled for cli by maintainer script)

++++ Configuration files: ++++
**** /etc/php5/mods-available/gd.ini ****
extension=gd.so


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.0
  APT prefers testing-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'testing-updates'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages php5-gd depends on:
ii  libc6                          2.19-13
ii  libfreetype6                   2.5.2-2
ii  libgd3                         2.1.0-5
ii  libjpeg62-turbo                1:1.3.1-11
ii  libpng12-0                     1.2.50-2+b2
ii  libvpx1                        1.3.0-3
ii  libx11-6                       2:1.6.2-3
ii  libxpm4                        1:3.5.11-1+b1
ii  php5-common [phpapi-20131226]  5.6.5+dfsg-1
ii  ucf                            3.0030
ii  zlib1g                         1:1.2.8.dfsg-2+b1

php5-gd recommends no packages.

php5-gd suggests no packages.

Versions of packages php5-common depends on:
ii  libc6   2.19-13
ii  lsof    4.86+dfsg-1
ii  psmisc  22.21-2
ii  sed     4.2.2-4+b1
ii  ucf     3.0030

Versions of packages php5-common suggests:
pn  php5-user-cache  <none>

Versions of packages php5-cli depends on:
ii  libbz2-1.0        1.0.6-7+b2
ii  libc6             2.19-13
ii  libcomerr2        1.42.12-1
ii  libdb5.3          5.3.28-7~deb8u1
ii  libedit2          3.1-20140620-2
ii  libgssapi-krb5-2  1.12.1+dfsg-17
ii  libk5crypto3      1.12.1+dfsg-17
ii  libkrb5-3         1.12.1+dfsg-17
ii  libmagic1         1:5.20-2
ii  libonig2          5.9.5-3.2
ii  libpcre3          2:8.35-3.3
ii  libqdbm14         1.8.78-5+b1
ii  libssl1.0.0       1.0.1k-1
ii  libxml2           2.9.1+dfsg1-4
ii  mime-support      3.58
ii  php5-common       5.6.5+dfsg-1
ii  php5-json         1.3.6-1
ii  tzdata            2015a-1
ii  ucf               3.0030
ii  zlib1g            1:1.2.8.dfsg-2+b1

Versions of packages php5-cli recommends:
ii  php5-readline  5.6.5+dfsg-1

Versions of packages php5-cli suggests:
pn  php-pear  <none>

Versions of packages libapache2-mod-php5 depends on:
ii  apache2                             2.4.10-9
ii  apache2-bin [apache2-api-20120211]  2.4.10-9
ii  libbz2-1.0                          1.0.6-7+b2
ii  libc6                               2.19-13
ii  libcomerr2                          1.42.12-1
ii  libdb5.3                            5.3.28-7~deb8u1
ii  libgssapi-krb5-2                    1.12.1+dfsg-17
ii  libk5crypto3                        1.12.1+dfsg-17
ii  libkrb5-3                           1.12.1+dfsg-17
ii  libmagic1                           1:5.20-2
ii  libonig2                            5.9.5-3.2
ii  libpcre3                            2:8.35-3.3
ii  libqdbm14                           1.8.78-5+b1
ii  libssl1.0.0                         1.0.1k-1
ii  libstdc++6                          4.9.1-19
ii  libxml2                             2.9.1+dfsg1-4
ii  mime-support                        3.58
ii  php5-cli                            5.6.5+dfsg-1
ii  php5-common                         5.6.5+dfsg-1
ii  php5-json                           1.3.6-1
ii  tzdata                              2015a-1
ii  ucf                                 3.0030
ii  zlib1g                              1:1.2.8.dfsg-2+b1

Versions of packages libapache2-mod-php5 suggests:
pn  php-pear  <none>

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