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Re: new libtiff dev packages



On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 10:35:48 -0400, Jay Berkenbilt wrote:

> [I'm not subscribed to debian-devel at the moment, so please cc me on
> responses in the unlikely event that there need to be any.]
> 
> I've uploaded new versions of libtiff4-dev and libtiff-dev (now the name
> for libtiff5-dev, with libtiff5-dev as a virtual package).  libtiff-dev
> now provides both libtiff4-dev and libtiff5-dev, and libtiff4-dev
> provides libtiff-dev.  The consequence of this change is that packages
> that depend on libtiff-dev will not get libtiff5-dev (which is what we
> want) and packages that depend on libtiff5-dev or libtiff-dev can build
> depend on other packages that themselves depend on libtiff4-dev.  This
> makes it possible for people who want bigtiff support to immediately
> change their build dependencies to libtiff-dev (>> 4.0.1-6~).  That
> version also includes pkg-config support.  If you're already using
> libtiff5-dev as a build dependency, there's no need to change it, but if
> you want to switch to libtiff-dev at your next upload, that would be
> reasonable.
> 
Please don't do that.  libtiff-dev needs to point to libtiff4 until
after the wheezy release.

Cheers,
Julien

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