[FFmpeg-devel] Can we drop OpenJPEG 1.5 in favor of 2.x?

[Andreas Cadhalpun]

On 24.10.2015 18:59, Carl Eugen Hoyos wrote:
> Michael Bradshaw <mjbshaw <at> gmail.com> writes:
> 
>> tl;dr: I've got a patch that updates OpenJPEG to 2.0/2.1. 
>> Currently, I've opted to drop OpenJPEG 1.5. Should I 
>> proceed with preparing this patch for submission, or 
>> should I alter it to keep 1.5 support?
> 
> Do distributions support (contain) 2.x?

Debian has a separate openjpeg2 package [1], even in stable.
So from my point of view there is no need to keep compatibility with
openjpeg 1.5, if that's too difficult/ugly.

Best regards,
Andreas

1: https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/openjpeg2