Bug#815612: libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0: JPEG2000 support is missing

[Dima Kogan]

Package: libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0
Severity: normal
Hi. In August 2015 JPEG2000 support was removed:

  https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=796270

The cited rationale was the poor state of the library providing this
support. I have no particular love of jasper, but supporting JPEG2000 is
desirable. It is indeed somewhat "exotic" and "fringe", and you usually
don't need it; until you do.

What needs to happen to get this support back in some way?

Thanks.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.0
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (800, 'unstable'), (700, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: armhf, armel, i386

Kernel: Linux 4.0.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) (ignored: LC_ALL set to C)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)