Multiple json-parsing C libraries included in the default install

[Steve Langasek]

As part of reviewing priority mismatches for the jammy release[1], I noticed
that we are now pulling two json-parsing C libraries into the default Ubuntu
install.  We have had libjson-c in the default install for a while, as a
dependency of libcryptsetup (and others); and libjansson has been in main
since 2015, but is now being pulled into the default install by both
mtr-tiny and nftables.

Is there any hope of consolidation here?  Having two competing C
implementations of any sort of parser library in main seems like a
suboptimal choice.

Does anyone have a view on which of these two implementations is of higher
quality or has a better API?

-- 
Steve Langasek                   Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS
Debian Developer                   to set it on, and I can move the world.
Ubuntu Developer                                   https://www.debian.org/
slangasek at ubuntu.com                                     vorlon at debian.org

[1] https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-archive/priority-mismatches.html
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