Re: vtk's tiff build-dep

[Mathieu Malaterre <malat@debian.org>]

Salut Julien,

On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 11:45 AM, Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org> wrote:
> it seems you recently switched vtk to build-depend on libtiff5-dev.
> This is discouraged at this point.  What is the reason for that change?

I needed to get itk to compile with libtiff5-dev to handle large tiff.
I could not get itk to use libtiff5-dev until vtk switches also to
libtiff5-dev.

As a side note, I also switch VXL to use libtiff5-dev, is this also an issue ?

thanks,