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Re: intention for tiff packages



On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 11:00:53 -0500, Jay Berkenbilt wrote:

> Upstream has committed symbol versioning for both the 3.9.x branch and
> the trunk (4.0.0) and is prepared to release 3.9.6 and 4.0.1 with symbol
> versioning once we sign off that it's what we're looking for.  What's
> the best way to do this?  I would hate to make the assessment on my own
> and then find out it's still not right.  Maybe I can prepare versions
> for experimental built with symbol versioning and someone can look it
> over?  I'll still do my test of an application depending on a library
> with tiff 3 and another library with tiff 4.
> 
An upload to experimental with the option enabled seems reasonable.  On
the packaging side the addition of versioned symbols means bumping
libtiff4's shlibs to avoid warnings from ld.so.  I quickly looked over
the upstream changes adding the version script, which look fine to me.

Cheers,
Julien

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