#862077 - pngnq is dead and broken. switch to the fork pngnq-s9, plz (original) (raw)

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pngnq is dead and broken. switch to the fork pngnq-s9, plz

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Report forwardedto debian-bugs-dist@lists.debian.org, Nelson A. de Oliveira <naoliv@debian.org>:
Bug#862077; Package pngnq. (Mon, 08 May 2017 09:27:04 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).

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Package: pngnq Version: 1.0-2.3+b1 Severity: important

Dear Maintainer, pnqnq is dead for years now and has a longstanding open bug that cripples its usefulness. But there's a fork that's alive and has a fix for this, among plenty other improvements: https://sf.net/projects/pngnqs9

pngnq puts redundant colors into the palette, i.e. it uses less than the requested number of colors to quantize to and produces inferior visual quality. This questions the usefulness of pngnq since the only point in using it is some smaller improvement in visual quality brought by its novel algorithm. See bug #10 from 2010: https://sf.net/p/pngnq/bugs/10

If not switching to pngnq-s9 altogether, it would be nice to at least incorporate their fix for described bug.

-- System Information: Debian Release: 9.0 APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686)