Bug#565919: libgd-gd2-noxpm-perl fails test-suite with libjpeg8

[Bill Allombert]

On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 06:03:48PM +0100, Bill Allombert wrote:
> Package: libgd-gd2-noxpm-perl
> Version: 1:2.39-2
> Severity: important
> 
> Hello GD team, 
> 
> I report this bug in prevision of the migration to libjpeg8.
> 
> libgd-gd2-noxpm-perl fails to build with libjpeg8 because the test suite fails.
> libjpeg8 performs subsampling by default which leads to better quality images
> so the test suite need to be updated.
> 
> The full buildlog is available at
> <http://people.debian.org/~ballombe/misc/libgd-gd2-noxpm-perl.build>

Upstream advice to fix the test suite is to generated the original JPEG image using
cjpeg -sample 1x1
This way it should be decoded identically by libjpeg62, libjpeg7 and libjpeg8.

Cheers,
-- 
Bill. <ballombe at debian.org>

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