[packman] openjpeg2 package is ancient

Lorenzo Porta vindex17 at outlook.it
Thu May 29 11:05:00 CEST 2014


I submitted a deletion request as it's available in both 1.5.1 and 2.x 
versions
("openjpeg" at http://software.opensuse.org/search)

Il 28/05/2014 04:57, Benjamin Gilbert ha scritto:
> Hi,
>
> The Packman openjpeg2 package, in its current state, is likely to 
> cause confusion:
>
> - The package claims to ship OpenJPEG 2.0, but actually ships a SVN 
> snapshot from 2010-11-25.  This was nearly two full years before 
> OpenJPEG 2.0 was released.
>
> - The packaged library has a different soname from the upstream 
> OpenJPEG 2.0.  As a result, the openSUSE openjpeg-devel and Packman 
> openjpeg2-devel both package the libopenjpeg.so symlink. (This would 
> not happen with OpenJPEG 2.0 final, since the shared library was 
> renamed.)
>
> - OpenJPEG 2.0 is also packaged in openSUSE Factory, using slightly 
> different package names.
>
>
> (I tried to report this to Packman JIRA, but it returned a 500 error 
> when I tried to create an account.)
>
> --Benjamin Gilbert
>
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