Bug#797165: moving forward

[Anton Gladky <gladk@debian.org>]

Hi Ghislain,

I made the previous upload of freeimage to fix RC-bug and
had the same idea to adopt freeimage under Debian-Science.

As far as I understand openjpeg is already in Debian [1].

So, let`s do it?

[1] https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/openjpeg2

Cheers

Anton


2015-09-16 11:17 GMT+02:00 Ghislain Vaillant <ghisvail@gmail.com>:
> Hello everyone,
>
> From Raphael:
>> Hopefully one the of the people who will discover this RC bug (because
>> their package depends on freeimage or whatever) can be convinced to take
>> over this package... it has been orphaned for way too long.
>
> I am one such package maintainers (ArrayFire) affected by the autorm of
> freeimage. Also, other projects I am involved with do use freeimage. I may
> consider taking over the maintenance of freeimage under d-science but want
> to evaluate the amount of efforts that would require first.
>
> From Scott:
>> Freeimage > 1.5.4 (that is, the current sid version) requires OpenJPEG
>> 2.1.0, which is not in Debian.
>
>> At this moment, the best course of action may be to simply carry the new
>> patches Raphael pointed out rather than updating freeimage then working to
>> remove openjpeg 2.1 support.
>
> Which you hinted to be a non-trivial task, isn't it? Would it make things
> easier if OpenJPEG was updated to 2.1.0 in Debian? I guess it would be a
> requirement for a potential update of freeimage to 3.17 onwards?
>
> Just trying to define what the "ideal" course of actions should be. I
> understand the latter is currently far from reality.
>
> Best regards,
> Ghislain
>
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