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Dave Korn wrote:
>   I was just about to say "We could always try and find a security
> vulnerability, that's the only thing that would cause upstream to update
> libjpeg these days!  :)  But then I took a look at the new change.log and it's
> actually crammed with new and improved functionality, so this is an ideal
> opportunity.
> 
>   I think the makes freezing (obsoleting) libjpeg-6b forever with the lossless
> patch incorporated, and just moving to a straight unpatched release of
> libjpeg-7 a no-brainer doesn't it?  What a fortuitous bit of timing!

Yep.  Sometimes you get lucky.  Not often -- that's why it's called luck.

--
Chuck

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