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Re: Bug#35156: The TIFF specification.



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On Tue, Oct 26, 1999 at 10:32:07PM +0000, Marco Budde wrote:
> > I've downloaded it from ftp://ftp.onshore.com/pub/libtiff/TIFF6.ps.Z, and
> > these are the statistics:
> > 
> > % wc -c TIFF6.ps.gz
> >  177280 TIFF6.ps.gz
> > 
> > % wc -c TIFF6.ps
> > 1070958 TIFF6.ps
> > 
> > That's just a wee bit too much for the .diff.gz and current 350kb package...
> 
> ??? Why? Store it compressed. Without this file the dev package and the
> library is useless for a programmer. Without this file you can not use
> libtiff as a programmer (the lib doc doesn´t describe when you have to
> use which tiff tag).

1) It's too big. YMMVBIDGAF.
2) It's not bundled with upstream libTIFF source - I guess there's a
   reason.
3) It has a license that sure doesn't count as a Free Software one.
   Maybe it's a Free Documentation one, but I don't know, and I don't care.

The URL where you can find the spec is clearly written in the current
documentation. If you wish it in a .deb package, do it yourself, I'm
not stopping you, not at all.

-- 
enJoy -*/\*- don't even try to pronounce my first name


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