Hi Ghislain, I made the previous upload of freeimage to fix RC-bug and had the same idea to adopt freeimage under Debian-Science.
As far as I understand openjpeg is already in Debian [1]. So, let`s do it? [1] https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/openjpeg2 Cheers Anton 2015-09-16 11:17 GMT+02:00 Ghislain Vaillant <ghisv...@gmail.com>: > Hello everyone, > > From Raphael: >> Hopefully one the of the people who will discover this RC bug (because >> their package depends on freeimage or whatever) can be convinced to take >> over this package... it has been orphaned for way too long. > > I am one such package maintainers (ArrayFire) affected by the autorm of > freeimage. Also, other projects I am involved with do use freeimage. I may > consider taking over the maintenance of freeimage under d-science but want > to evaluate the amount of efforts that would require first. > > From Scott: >> Freeimage > 1.5.4 (that is, the current sid version) requires OpenJPEG >> 2.1.0, which is not in Debian. > >> At this moment, the best course of action may be to simply carry the new >> patches Raphael pointed out rather than updating freeimage then working to >> remove openjpeg 2.1 support. > > Which you hinted to be a non-trivial task, isn't it? Would it make things > easier if OpenJPEG was updated to 2.1.0 in Debian? I guess it would be a > requirement for a potential update of freeimage to 3.17 onwards? > > Just trying to define what the "ideal" course of actions should be. I > understand the latter is currently far from reality. > > Best regards, > Ghislain > > -- > To unsubscribe, send mail to 797165-unsubscr...@bugs.debian.org.
