I told in August 2013 that it seems dead upstream. I have no idea what
is the situation today. I was simply hoping that it got better in the
last two years and seeing that Debian, a distro very much oriented in
stability and server use, using it in Ghostscript it made the impression
for me that it improved. Therefore I asked for revisiting this MIR.

If the state of libopenjpeg is still as bad as before it is no problem
for me to continue Ghostscript separate from Debian. perhaps also
assuming that the Ghostscript upstream developers are more into security
and therefore their copy of libopenjpeg in the Ghostscript source is
better than the original (see comment #21).

Also no one complained about the JPEG2000 support in our Ghostscript
(using the openjpeg copy with comes with Ghostscript) and also no
security bug reports related to this appeared. This can mean that the
built-in openjpeg is "good enough" for Ghostscript and has the
vulnerable parts not used or fixed by Ghostscript developers.

In addition, JPEG2000 seems an exotic format for me which did not really
get adopted, it exists for years and I have owned several digital
cameras (including DSLR and mirrorless cameras) since 2001 and they all
do classic JPEG and RAW, JPEG2000 never made it into a camera. Where is
JPEG2000 actually used?

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