On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 09:02:59PM +0100, László Böszörményi (GCS) wrote:
> Hi Moritz,
>
> On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 8:19 PM, <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Hi, jasper will be removed from Debian for the stretch release (and
> > following that, the archive in general).
> Yes, noticed that.
>
> > It's been unmaintained for nearly a decade, please als see
> > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=812630
> >
> > Your package uses jasper, so please either remove the JPEG2000
> > functionality or move to a supported implementation (e.g. openjpeg or
> > ffmpeg).
> I think I'll remove that support. Simple JPEGs will be supported. May
> you know any details, how much percent JPEG2000 is used?
Apparently some science software uses it, but when I made a jasper
security upload in the past, finding samples "in the wild" wasn't easy,
it's a very fringe format.
Cheers,
Moritz
