Re: libtiff borken - cannot build anymore?

["Adam D. Barratt" <adam@adam-barratt.org.uk>]

On 2013-05-20 17:09, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at> writes:
> > On Mo, 20 Mai 2013, Jay Berkenbilt wrote:
>
> > > > > The build deps that I have are:
> > > > > 	libgd2-xpm-dev | libgd2-noxpm-dev	=> libtiff5-dev
> > > > > 	libgs-dev	=> libtiff4-dev
> > > > > How should this work out?
>
> > > The situation is that you can't have both libtiff4-dev and 
> > > libtiff5-dev
> > > on the build dependency chain of any two packages at the same time.
> > > For now, what you have to do instead is to have the package that
> > > requires libtiff5-dev instead build-depend on libtiff5-alt-dev.  
> > > The
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> It means that ghostscript needs to be updated to do what Jay says.

Or that gd needs to not tie its own transition to libtiff, and should 
go back to using libtiff4 until we're ready to do the tiff transition.

Changing gs to use tiff5 just moves the problem to the next reverse 
dependency (of either gs or gd).

Regards,

Adam