Bug#818201: kodi: Jasper removal

[Bálint Réczey]

Control: tags -1 confirmed pending upstream

Hi Moritz,

2016-03-14 20:19 GMT+01:00  <jmm at debian.org>:
> Source: kodi
> Severity: important
> User: jmm at debian.org
> Usertags: jasper-rm
>
> Hi, jasper will be removed from Debian for the stretch release (and
> following that, the archive in general).
>
> It's been unmaintained for nearly a decade, please als see
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=812630
>
> Your package uses jasper, so please either remove the JPEG2000
> functionality or move to a supported implementation (e.g. openjpeg or
> ffmpeg).
>
> A removal tracker has been setup by the release team at
> https://release.debian.org/transitions/html/jasper-rm.html
>
> This bug will be bumped to release-critical status in a few weeks.
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.

Cheers,
Balint

[1] https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/commit/00724eb109a702f0098089d849f7c02ea173a4a9