Hi. On Mon, Mar 27, 2017 at 12:16:25PM +0000, David Griffith wrote: > > Why is libjasper missing from Stretch? > > According to https://bugs.debian.org/812630 the stated reason for its > removal is that libjasper has not been updated for ten years.
No, actual reason for the removal was that the only package's maintainer stepped down. Quote: Due to lack of time, I'm looking for a new maintainer for this package. > In this same > bug report is a note that this assertion is not true and a link was provided > to a Github repository. On January 25th maintainer stepped down. On October 25th (i.e. more than half-year later) someone noticed that upstream was back to life. The fact that the second assertion (i.e. 'dead upstream') was invalidated did not do anything to first (i.e. 'package unmaintained'). > Nonetheless, the bug report was closed without > further explanation. The explanation was provided, in fact: ------------------- Reason ------------------- RoQA; dead upstrem, replaced by openjpeg ---------------------------------------------- Reco