Re: libtiff status: only 21 to go
* Jay Berkenbilt (ejb@ql.org) [040804 21:10]:
> > BTW, is rebuilding against libtiff-dev (provided by libtiff4-dev) enough,
> > or is build-depending on libtiff4-dev really necessary and why?
> My opinion is that if your application uses libtiff directly and does
> not use any libraries that use libtiff, then there's no reason for you
> to not just use libtiff-dev. At present, libtiff-dev is provided only
> by libtiff4-dev (in sid) because libtiff3g-dev no longer exists (in
> sid).
Well, I would set the build-dev explicitly to libtiff4-dev, because
that forces during an automatic build to use the current package - and
also forces to wait till libtiff4 is build on all architectures.
(However, as the second is now the case, it's probably not critical
now any more for libtiff.)
Cheers,
Andi
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