Re: libjasper in Stretch

[David Griffith <dave@661.org>]

On Mon, 27 Mar 2017, Sven Hartge wrote:

> David Griffith <dave@661.org> wrote:
>
> > 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?
>
> Umm, openjpeg has also been removed from Stretch/Testing and Unstable
>
> See https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/openjpeg and https://tracker.debian.org/news/791076
>
> It has been replaced by openjpeg2:
>
> https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/openjpeg2

Okay, now I see it.  Why is the package named "openjp2-7" instead of 
"openjpeg2-7"?  It seems to me that the latter would be easier to find.

Why is/was there a "libopenjpeg5" package?

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