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+{
+  lib,
+  stdenv,
+  fetchFromGitHub,
+}:
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation (finalAttrs: {
+  pname = "libjpeg-tools";
+  version = "1.71";
+
+  src = fetchFromGitHub {
+    owner = "thorfdbg";
+    repo = "libjpeg";
+    rev = "25f71280913fde7400801772bbf885bb3e873242";
+    hash = "sha256-40yb9EujJp9y1PnuYLcPxK31Kj2Q4UQ5YBwXQFYXI/Y=";
+  };
+
+  outputs = [
+    "out"
+    "lib"
+  ];
+
+  buildPhase = ''
+    runHook preBuild
+    make lib
+    make final
+    runHook postBuild
+  '';
+
+  installPhase = ''
+    runHook preInstall
+    install -m755 -D jpeg $out/bin/jpeg
+    install -m644 -D libjpeg.so $lib/lib/libjpeg
+    runHook postInstall
+  '';
+
+  doCheck = false; # no tests
+
+  meta = {
+    description = "A complete implementation of 10918-1 (JPEG) coming from jpeg.org (the ISO group) with extensions for HDR, lossless and alpha channel coding standardized as ISO/IEC 18477 (JPEG XT)";
+    homepage = "https://github.com/thorfdbg/libjpeg";
+    license = with lib.licenses; [ gpl3 ];
+    changelog = "https://github.com/thorfdbg/libjpeg/README.history";
+    maintainers = with lib.maintainers; [ bcdarwin ];
+    platforms = lib.platforms.unix;
+    mainProgram = "jpeg";
+    # clang build fails with "ld: symbol(s) not found for architecture arm64" (on aarch64-darwin)
+    broken = stdenv.hostPlatform.isDarwin;
+  };
+})