[Pkg-phototools-devel] Bug#698536: closed by Mathieu Malaterre <malat at debian.org> (Re: Bug#698536: libopenjpeg2: highly outdated (> 6 years), new upstream version 2.0)

[Christoph Anton Mitterer]

Hi.


> > tags 698536 wontfix
I don't quite understand why you close this (especially as it's not
fixed yet, and likely other people will report the same "bug", too).
Especially it's surely not a wontfix...


> > openjpeg 1.5 transition was scheduled, see #669348. However it occured
> > too late in the freeze process, and was postponed. 1.5 is ABI
> > incompatible with 1.3, however after doing a recompilation all
> > packages in debian should rebuild properly. so nothing prevents you
> > from using 1.5.x.
> > 
> > technically speaking transition to 2.0 will not happen any time soon,
> > since API are so different, so packages 1.x and 2.x might have to live
> > together.
And why not simply providing all the libs with the different ABIs? Or at
least the newest one and those that are used in not yet transitioned
packages?


Cheers,
Chris.
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