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Re: libjasper in Stretch

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	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
----------------------------------------------

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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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