Don't build-depend or depend on jasper
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| imagemagick (Debian) |
Fix Released
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Unknown
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| imagemagick (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Medium
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
1. The current version of imagemagick in Ubuntu since at least 15.04 (!) no longer supports jasper for JPEG2000 support but support openjpeg2 instead. See bug 1447968 . In other words, the current dependency on jasper does nothing.
2. jasper will be removed from Debian really soon because it has been abandoned upstream for a while.
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3. From what I can tell, imagemagick is the last thing keeping jasper in Ubuntu main. openjpeg2 is not in main yet, see bug 711061 . Interestingly, jasper apparently was never explicitly reviewed for inclusion in main and probably would not have been allowed in main had a review happened any time recently.
I'm attaching a debdiff for sponsoring to remove the useless jasper dependency. Thanks!
For removing jasper from Ubuntu completely, see bug 1612835 .
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.10
Package: imagemagick 8:6.8.9.9-7ubuntu7
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 4.4.0-33-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelMo
ApportVersion: 2.20.3-0ubuntu5
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: GNOME
Date: Fri Aug 12 17:14:49 2016
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-04-09 (124 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-GNOME 16.04 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Beta amd64 (20160408)
SourcePackage: imagemagick
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
| Jeremy Bícha (jbicha) wrote | #1 |
| Jeremy Bícha (jbicha) wrote | #2 |
| description: | updated |
| tags: | added: patch |
| Changed in imagemagick (Ubuntu): | |
| importance: | Undecided → Medium |
| tags: | added: packaging |
| Tyler Hicks (tyhicks) wrote | #3 |
| Tyler Hicks (tyhicks) wrote | #4 |
| Changed in imagemagick (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | New → Fix Committed |
| Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote | #5 |
| Changed in imagemagick (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | Fix Committed → Fix Released |
| Changed in imagemagick (Debian): | |
| status: | Unknown → Fix Released |
@jbicha are you planning on uploading the changes that remove libjasper-dev from the list of dependencies? Would be nice to have that land in yakkety so we can demote jasper to universe.