Re: libtiff status: only 21 to go

[jmarant@nerim.net (Jérôme Marant)]

Jay Berkenbilt <ejb@ql.org> writes:


>>   BTW, is rebuilding against libtiff-dev (provided by libtiff4-dev) enough,
>>   or is build-depending on libtiff4-dev really necessary and why?
>
> I'll give my opinion, but someone with more experience with Debian
> library issues may contradict me.
>
> 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).

Correct.

> It is possible in the future that more than one package will provide
> libtiff-dev.  If I have anything to do with it, should this happen,
> any additional packages that provide libtiff-dev would have versioned
> symbols.  I think this means that it would be safe for you to use
> libtiff-dev instead of libtiff4-dev now even if your application uses
> other libraries that also use libtiff, but I'm not 100% sure about
> this because I have not yet learned all the subtitles of versioned
> symbols.  (This situation will soon be corrected.)
>
> I'm sure someone will correct this if I am wrong.

Thanks!

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