Bug#818201: kodi: Jasper removal

[Bálint Réczey]

Hi Mattia,

2016-06-27 15:51 GMT+02:00 Mattia Rizzolo <mattia at debian.org>:
> Hi Balint,
>
> On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 02:45:43PM +0100, Bálint Réczey wrote:
>> > Hi, jasper will be removed from Debian for the stretch release (and
>> > following that, the archive in general).
>> Kodi 17 wil not use jasper [1] and is expected to be release before
>> Stretch's freeze.
>> I plan fixing this bug with the 17.0 upstream release.
>
> Can you please fix it before?
> I see there is an alpha release avaialbe that should already contain
> that fix, or maybe backport the patch.
>
> In a few days kodi is going to be the very last blocker for jasper
> removal (as today I NMUed a bunch, and paved the way for the others).

The new alpha releases are fixed indeed, but the fix is not simple and I'm
not comfortable with either back-porting it either with uploading 17.0
alphas to unstable. There are many add-on packages depending on Kodi's
API and they need to be updated as well with each major Kodi update
and I'm not sure if all the addon upstreams are ready for Kodi 17 already.

I'm uploading a fixed kodi 17 to experimental soon, but please keep jasper in
testing for kodi for a few short months.

Thanks,
Balint