Issues about freeimage library

[topazus]

I received an email about the plan of orphaning freeimage package on Fedora from its package maintainer:

I intend to orphan freeimage. Probably, the package should rather just
be retired. Upstream is effectively dead, and there is a constant stream
of CVEs getting filed against the package which are not addressed
upstream. Over the past two years I've fixed many of those CVEs
downstream, but the most recent batch of 15 CVEs is leading me to
capitulate. Currently, the following packages require freeimage:

PerceptualDiff
allegro5
cegui06
deepin-image-viewer
gazebo
imv
ogre
photoqt

A minimal impact check:

PerceptualDiff: freeimage is a hard dependency. PerceptualDiff itself
has seen its last commit 4 years ago, last release 8 years ago
allegro5: freeimage is an optional dependency
cegui06: freeimage is an optional dependency
deepin-image-viewer: freeimage is a hard dependency
gazebo: freeimage is a hard dependency. (The fedora package is for
"gazebo-classic" https://github.com/gazebosim/gazebo-classic, which
points to https://github.com/gazebosim/gz-sim as the "latest version",
which does not appear to require freeimage)
imv: freeimage is an optional dependency
ogre: freeimage is an optional dependency
photoqt: freeimage is an optional dependency

There are several issues that need to be solved by freeimage. see details: arrayfire/forge#248. Any suggestions?

[UTsweetyfish]

Hi topazus,

Currently deepin-image-viewer heavily relies on freeimage, and we do not have plans to change this dependency now.
While we may consider alternatives in the future, we cannot make any promises at this time.

[UTsweetyfish]

deepin-image-viewer has dropped dependency on freeimage.