Comment 15 for bug 61303

(In reply to comment #13)
>
> The reason this situation exists is not due to some careless lack of testing.
> For cairo at least, there was a conscious acknowledgment from the developers
> that have been working on cairo so far that the 8-bit pseudo-color case is
> uninteresting.
>

Sadly there is a bit of a clash of expectations here. The Cairo developers are
busy working on what they find interesting, while in another part of the free
software ecosystem distributors like SuSE are including this partially
functional software in their products and selling it to the general public.