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26.3; Possible incorrect results from color-distance

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Message #37 received at 41544 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: mattiase <at> acm.org
Cc: tom <at> tromey.com, simon <at> polaris64.net, 41544 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#41544: 26.3; Possible incorrect results from color-distance
Date: Mon, 01 Jun 2020 20:44:39 +0300

> Date: Mon, 01 Jun 2020 20:35:53 +0300
> From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
> Cc: tom <at> tromey.com, simon <at> polaris64.net, 41544 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> I'm just looking at the changes.  I see a change in how colors are
> converted to RGB triplets.  I see a change in what colors are
> considered dark and light, with a new function which decides that that
> is being used for frame background mode and in several lisp/term/
> files, including 16-color terminals.  I'm asking why do we want to
> make all those changes, which modify very basic aspects of our color
> support on many terminals.

And then, of course, there are the changes in color-distance itself,
which change the values it returns.  Again, why such significant
changes to fix an otherwise insignificant bug?

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