State of ECW support in Debian gdal?

[Sven Geggus <lists@fuchsschwanzdomain.de>]

Hello,

gdal in Debian used to contain a patch for adding ecw support via a proprietary
library using a plugin. Unfortunately this seems to have gone.

Unfortunately this plugin approach does not seem to be included in the
package anymore. Is this correct?

Do I really need to recompile the whole library now?

Sven

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