Re: libtiff status: only 21 to go

[Jérôme Marant <jmarant@free.fr>]

Quoting Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>:

> Depending on the order in which the libraries are loaded, having one lib
> with versioned symbols and one without loaded into memory can still be a
> problem.
>
> But I don't think that's much of an issue when looking at the build
> dependencies, here.  I seem to recall, though, that pure-virtual
> build-deps (as libtiff-dev is) are usually considered bad form?

It works fine when a virtual package is provided by one only
real package, which is the case with libtiff-dev.

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Jérôme Marant