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Re: tiff status



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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