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

[Ondřej Surý]

On Mon, Feb 22, 2016, at 07:46, Vincas Dargis wrote:
> On Tue, 19 May 2015 16:02:48 +0200 Florian Baumann <flo at noqqe.de> wrote:
> > Where is the advantage of the old flag?
> 
> If it is done like tutorials suggests, then there will be two libgd
> libraries in Debian: one in upstream libgd2 package, AND another
> statically linked inside PHP itself. In this way, handling bugs and
> security issues would be harder, so Debian policy does not allow that,
> IF I understand it correctly.

You understand it precisely.

> So either upstream libgd developers should go in sync with PHP fork...
> or Debian should use PHP libgd instead of upstream package... or.. I
> dunno...

I helped making libgd 2.0.x releases to happen, that brought the library
almost in sync with PHP libgd2 fork. The libgd has recently got some
traction and got moved to github: https://github.com/libgd, but still
more developers contributing code would be beneficial to the project.

I would suggest a third option: everybody who can code and care about
getting imageantialias to Debian PHP to go to libgd project and
contribute a working code that would get a required library support in
the standalone libgd2 (while not breaking existing ABI/API).

Cheers,
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Ondřej Surý <ondrej at sury.org>
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