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Re: libjasper in Stretch

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On Mon, 27 Mar 2017, Reco wrote:

> 	Hi.
>
> On Mon, Mar 27, 2017 at 12:16:25PM +0000, David Griffith wrote:
>>
>> Why is libjasper missing from Stretch?
>>
>> According to https://bugs.debian.org/812630 the stated reason for its
>> removal is that libjasper has not been updated for ten years.
>
> No, actual reason for the removal was that the only package's maintainer
> stepped down. Quote:
>
> Due to lack of time, I'm looking for a new maintainer for this package.
>
>
>> In this same
>> bug report is a note that this assertion is not true and a link was provided
>> to a Github repository.
>
> On January 25th maintainer stepped down. On October 25th (i.e. more than
> half-year later) someone noticed that upstream was back to life.
> The fact that the second assertion (i.e. 'dead upstream') was
> invalidated did not do anything to first (i.e. 'package unmaintained').
>
>> Nonetheless, the bug report was closed without
>> further explanation.
>
> The explanation was provided, in fact:
>
> ------------------- Reason -------------------
> RoQA; dead upstrem, replaced by openjpeg
> ----------------------------------------------

I also saw this 
https://packages.qa.debian.org/j/jasper/news/20170212T221713Z.html, which 
suggests that the original maintainer has stepped back up.  In any case, I 
should perhaps convert my code from using Jasper to using OpenJPEG. But 
then I notice that there is no libopenjpeg5-dev in Stretch to go along 
with libopenjpeg5.  Is this just temporary?


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David Griffith
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libjasper in Stretch David Griffith <dave@661.org> - 2017-03-27 14:20 +0200
  Re: libjasper in Stretch Reco <recoverym4n@gmail.com> - 2017-03-27 14:30 +0200
    Re: libjasper in Stretch David Griffith <dave@661.org> - 2017-03-27 15:10 +0200
      Re: libjasper in Stretch Sven Hartge <sven@svenhartge.de> - 2017-03-27 16:10 +0200
        Re: libjasper in Stretch David Griffith <dave@661.org> - 2017-03-28 03:50 +0200
          Re: libjasper in Stretch Sven Hartge <sven@svenhartge.de> - 2017-03-28 10:00 +0200

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