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Please answer these questions before submitting your issue. Thanks!
What version of Go are you using (go version)?
go version go1.8.1 linux/amd64
What operating system and processor architecture are you using (go env)?
GOARCH="amd64" GOBIN="" GOEXE="" GOHOSTARCH="amd64" GOHOSTOS="linux" GOOS="linux" GOPATH="/home/valentin/go" GORACE="" GOROOT="/usr/local/go" GOTOOLDIR="/usr/local/go/pkg/tool/linux_amd64" GCCGO="gccgo" CC="gcc" GOGCCFLAGS="-fPIC -m64 -pthread -fmessage-length=0 -fdebug-prefix-map=/tmp/go-build951360311=/tmp/go-build -gno-record-gcc-switches" CXX="g++" CGO_ENABLED="1" PKG_CONFIG="pkg-config" CGO_CFLAGS="-g -O2" CGO_CPPFLAGS="" CGO_CXXFLAGS="-g -O2" CGO_FFLAGS="-g -O2" CGO_LDFLAGS="-g -O2"
What did you do?
Decoded fruit.png (which contains a strong gamma value in a gAMA chunk).
Encoded back to result.png.
Opened result.png in a gAMA-aware viewer (Chromium)
What did you expect to see?
A pear.
What did you see instead?
An apple.
I understand (after reading file reader_test.go and part of the PNG spec) that handling ancillary chunks (e.g. gAMA) is not a requirement for a PNG decoder. I also understand that implementing it would require some (unknown to me) amount of work. So, the question boils down to "would it be a good idea or not to take the gAMA chunk into account?".

