[Bug 1612835] Re: Please don't depend on jasper

[Tyler Hicks]

** Description changed:

  Jasper is being removed from Debian. It would be great if this could be
- done in Ubuntu too before 16.10 is released.
+ done in Ubuntu too before 17.04 is released.
  
  https://web.archive.org/web/20160402170040/https://release.debian.org/transitions/html
  /jasper-rm.html
  
  # reverse-depends -b src:jasper
  Reverse-Build-Depends
  =====================
  * digikam                       (for libjasper-dev)
  * kde4libs                      (for libjasper-dev)
  * kimageformats                 (for libjasper-dev)
  * kopete                        (for libjasper-dev)
  
  The last 4 are KDE stuff. Since these packages have already removed
  their jasper dependency in Debian, you should be able to just copy
  what's already been done.
  
  February 2017 Update
  ====================
  Here are the remaining commits from Debian that need to be applied in Ubuntu:
  
  https://anonscm.debian.org/git/pkg-kde/applications/kde4libs.git/commit/?id=5c373d77d
  https://anonscm.debian.org/git/pkg-kde/applications/kde4libs.git/commit/?id=efe65d118b
  
  https://anonscm.debian.org/git/pkg-kde/applications/kopete.git/commit/?id=efad42f0186
  https://anonscm.debian.org/git/pkg-kde/applications/kopete.git/commit/?id=b12bc0753c7

** Description changed:

- Jasper is being removed from Debian. It would be great if this could be
- done in Ubuntu too before 17.04 is released.
+ Jasper is being removed from Debian. It would be great if jasper's
+ source and all binary packages could be removed in Ubuntu before 17.04
+ is released.
  
  https://web.archive.org/web/20160402170040/https://release.debian.org/transitions/html
  /jasper-rm.html
  
  # reverse-depends -b src:jasper
  Reverse-Build-Depends
  =====================
  * digikam                       (for libjasper-dev)
  * kde4libs                      (for libjasper-dev)
  * kimageformats                 (for libjasper-dev)
  * kopete                        (for libjasper-dev)
  
  The last 4 are KDE stuff. Since these packages have already removed
  their jasper dependency in Debian, you should be able to just copy
  what's already been done.
  
  February 2017 Update
  ====================
  Here are the remaining commits from Debian that need to be applied in Ubuntu:
  
  https://anonscm.debian.org/git/pkg-kde/applications/kde4libs.git/commit/?id=5c373d77d
  https://anonscm.debian.org/git/pkg-kde/applications/kde4libs.git/commit/?id=efe65d118b
  
  https://anonscm.debian.org/git/pkg-kde/applications/kopete.git/commit/?id=efad42f0186
  https://anonscm.debian.org/git/pkg-kde/applications/kopete.git/commit/?id=b12bc0753c7

** Description changed:

  Jasper is being removed from Debian. It would be great if jasper's
  source and all binary packages could be removed in Ubuntu before 17.04
- is released.
+ is released. Jasper has a long security history and shouldn't remain,
+ unmaintained, in universe.
  
  https://web.archive.org/web/20160402170040/https://release.debian.org/transitions/html
  /jasper-rm.html
  
  # reverse-depends -b src:jasper
  Reverse-Build-Depends
  =====================
  * digikam                       (for libjasper-dev)
  * kde4libs                      (for libjasper-dev)
  * kimageformats                 (for libjasper-dev)
  * kopete                        (for libjasper-dev)
  
  The last 4 are KDE stuff. Since these packages have already removed
  their jasper dependency in Debian, you should be able to just copy
  what's already been done.
  
  February 2017 Update
  ====================
  Here are the remaining commits from Debian that need to be applied in Ubuntu:
  
  https://anonscm.debian.org/git/pkg-kde/applications/kde4libs.git/commit/?id=5c373d77d
  https://anonscm.debian.org/git/pkg-kde/applications/kde4libs.git/commit/?id=efe65d118b
  
  https://anonscm.debian.org/git/pkg-kde/applications/kopete.git/commit/?id=efad42f0186
  https://anonscm.debian.org/git/pkg-kde/applications/kopete.git/commit/?id=b12bc0753c7

** Description changed:

- Jasper is being removed from Debian. It would be great if jasper's
+ Jasper has been removed from Debian. It would be great if jasper's
  source and all binary packages could be removed in Ubuntu before 17.04
  is released. Jasper has a long security history and shouldn't remain,
  unmaintained, in universe.
  
  https://web.archive.org/web/20160402170040/https://release.debian.org/transitions/html
  /jasper-rm.html
+ 
+ As of 2017-02-10, all reverse depends in Zesty have been updated to drop
+ dependencies on jasper:
+ 
+ $ reverse-depends -b src:jasper
+ No reverse dependencies found
+ 
+ 
+ == Original Report ==
  
  # reverse-depends -b src:jasper
  Reverse-Build-Depends
  =====================
  * digikam                       (for libjasper-dev)
  * kde4libs                      (for libjasper-dev)
  * kimageformats                 (for libjasper-dev)
  * kopete                        (for libjasper-dev)
  
  The last 4 are KDE stuff. Since these packages have already removed
  their jasper dependency in Debian, you should be able to just copy
  what's already been done.
  
  February 2017 Update
  ====================
  Here are the remaining commits from Debian that need to be applied in Ubuntu:
  
  https://anonscm.debian.org/git/pkg-kde/applications/kde4libs.git/commit/?id=5c373d77d
  https://anonscm.debian.org/git/pkg-kde/applications/kde4libs.git/commit/?id=efe65d118b
  
  https://anonscm.debian.org/git/pkg-kde/applications/kopete.git/commit/?id=efad42f0186
  https://anonscm.debian.org/git/pkg-kde/applications/kopete.git/commit/?id=b12bc0753c7

** Summary changed:

- Please don't depend on jasper
+ Please remove jasper from Zesty

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  Please remove jasper from Zesty

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