[Pkg-squeak-devel] Bug#744289: this breaks a major part of scratch

[tim Rowledge]

All I can offer is that this must have been a change from a long time ago; I noticed the issue something like 5 years ago when I started on the scratch improvement project for RPF.  Since the Pi hasn’t used any squeak related stuff from upstream debian since then I had no reason to spend any more time on it other than to ask Ian P if he knew anything. He pretty much exploded in invective at the idea that someone would over-ride his code in a distro without even telling him about a problem. 

Debian should adopt the Sq5.1 VMs. If the jpeg library thing is still an issue (ie their version is still borken) then they will need to diff the code and so on. Our bundled version works; though I’m sure it could work better.

> On 15-06-2017, at 5:32 AM, Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de> wrote:
> 
> CC'ing Tim Rowledge (Raspberry Pi Scratch upstream developer) and Dave Lewis (Squeak upstream dev)
> 
> - Bert -
> 
> On Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 7:26 PM, Mike Gabriel <mike.gabriel at das-netzwerkteam.de> wrote:
> Hi Holger, hi Hanno,
> 
> On  Fr 02 Sep 2016 12:50:40 CEST, Holger Levsen wrote:
> 
> control: severity -1 important
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm upgrading the severity as this bug has a major impact on the
> usability of scratch, where a major part of the default samples are jpeg
> files.
> 
> (we were approached on the #debian-edu irc channel about this topic.)
> 
> Appearantly this has been fixed in raspian, it would be useful to
> analyse the source debdiff of the squeak-vm package in raspian and
> debian…
> 
> I guess fixing this in stable too would be much appreciated, if
> possible.
> 
> The situation is inconvenient. I looked into fixing #744289 and had to give up with a Debian policy violating patch that enables building against the bundled libjpeg files.
> 
> See attached patch for details.
> 
> Mike
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