On Fri, Aug 20, 2004 at 12:42:01PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > Andreas Metzler <ametzler@downhill.at.eu.org> writes: > > On 2004-08-20 Thomas Bushnell BSG <tb@becket.net> wrote: > > [...] > > > So I guess my question is: what exactly is holding up the > > > tiff->testing transition now? Is there some place I can look to see > > > more clearly than the scripts and web sites I know of now? > > > > http://people.debian.org/~aba/sarge.html#libtiff > Very helpful; thanks. > > When this will happen afaik basically depends on whether the testing > > scripts offer a big enough hammer, that allows ro intentionally break > > stuff or whether this functionality needs to be implemented first. > Understood. True or false: We can rely on the new tiff being in > sarge. True -- the old one silently breaks ABI compatibility with woody, which is not a bug we should let into a stable release (and even if we were inclined to let it pass, it's far too late to back out now). -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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