On Mon, Mar 05, 2012 at 13:44:34 +0000,
"Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones(a)redhat.com> wrote:
Well I take back some of what I said before. In the new version
(4.0.1) the cut-and-paste C code for reading and writing images has
been replaced with use of the appropriate libraries (libpng, libjpeg,
libungif, freetype). This is very encouraging, and shows that this
new upstream is back on track.
I'm still dubious about the image processing code, since that seems to
duplicate the functionality of things like cairo, but at least (a)
it's written in OCaml so it'll be robust from buffer overflows etc,
and (b) it's not likely to be security sensitive because it doesn't
read directly from image files.
Anyhow, go for it, don't let me discourage anyone from packaging
things for Fedora.
Thanks for the comments. Having another person take a quick look at it
and have good things to say (at least relative to the old version)
is encouraging.