freeimage

2026-09-27: AUR comment noting freeimagere-git alternative – no action taken

oriba commented suggesting freeimagere (github.com/agruzdev/FreeImageRe, AUR: freeimagere-git) as an alternative, since upstream FreeImage looks semi-abandoned. Checked: freeimagere-git does exist on AUR already (maintained separately by bill997, 0.5-2, 0 votes) – not something we’d need to create ourselves. It’s not a drop-in replacement though: Conflicts=(freeimage) and provides a different soname (libFreeImageRE.so vs our libfreeimage.so), so switching would need an explicit rebuild of anything depending on freeimage.

User’s call: leave the AUR thread as-is, no reply, no package change – this is an informational suggestion, not a bug report. If asked about this package’s status again, this is already known/considered, not a fresh gap to investigate.