Bug#615476: general: many binaries are linked with non-existent libtiff.so.3 library

[Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>]

On 02/26/2011 12:43 PM, Adam D. Barratt wrote:
> severity 615476 important
> tag 615476 + unreproducible
> thanks
>
> On Sat, 2011-02-26 at 21:25 +0300, sergey wrote:
> > Some programs can not start because of missing libtiff.so.3 file.
>
> I suspect this is a local problem, as none of the packages in question
> depends on libtiff at all; I'm therefore lowering the severity and
> tagging this report as unreproducible for the moment.
>
> > I found libtiff.so.3 dependencies in this files on my system:
> >
> > /usr/bin/gnuplot
> > /usr/bin/xfe
> > /usr/bin/xfview
> > /usr/bin/xfwrite
> > /usr/bin/multiget
> > /usr/bin/xfimage
> > /usr/bin/xfpack
>
> I've checked the copies of each of those binaries as shipped in squeeze
> on i386, and none of them appear to be using libtiff.so.  Please could
> you provide the output of "ldd -v $binary" for each of the above?

Sid's gnuplot depends on libtiff.so.4 which while obviously not v3, 
is at least a libtiff.so.

$ ldd -v /usr/bin/gnuplot | grep tiff
	libtiff.so.4 => /usr/lib/libtiff.so.4 (0x00007fc3655a9000)
	/usr/lib/libtiff.so.4:

(I don't have xfe or multiget installed, so can't test the others.)

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