Re: libjasper in Stretch
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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