Re: libtiff borken - cannot build anymore?
"Adam D. Barratt" <adam@adam-barratt.org.uk> writes:
> 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
> [...]
>> 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).
Oh, yes, good point -- I was thinking of libgs-dev using libtiff4-alt-dev
and missed that it hasn't yet been introduced. (Copying the ghostscript
bug so that the maintainers are aware that my advice was premature.)
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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