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bug#58373: Support image-type `jpg'
From: |
Lars Ingebrigtsen |
Subject: |
bug#58373: Support image-type `jpg' |
Date: |
Sat, 08 Oct 2022 15:16:29 +0200 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) |
Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com> writes:
> The image type is really "JPEG" (and the MIME type "image/jpeg"), while
> ".jpg" just happens to be a commonly used file extension for that file
> format. So what we have now is already correct, strictly speaking.
>
> All the same, perhaps it would be convenient to allow "jpg" as an alias
> for "jpeg". Would that risk introducing some backwards-incompatibility
> with some package out there though?
It probably won't, but I don't think it would be a good idea to
introduce an alias here. It's less confusing to just have a simple
single mapping from type to backend.
So I don't think we should do anything here, and I'm therefore closing
this bug report.