Re: Bug#634194: libtiff4-dev: Depends on libjpeg-dev even though library is linked against libjpeg62

[Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>]

On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 05:30:02PM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
> On 18/07/11 at 20:05 +0200, Julien Cristau wrote:
> > On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 19:59:50 +0200, Bill Allombert wrote:
> > 
> > > On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 08:25:08AM -0700, Daniel Schepler wrote:
> > > > Package: libtiff4-dev
> > > > Version: 3.9.5-1
> > > > Severity: normal
> > > > 
> > > > As the subject says, libtiff4 currently depends on libjpeg62, while libtiff4-dev 
> > > > depends on libjpeg-dev which is only provided by libjpeg8-dev.  So there's a 
> > > > version mismatch there.
> > > 
> > > Hello Daniel,
> > > 
> > > > Perhaps all that's needed is a binary-only NMU of the tiff source package -- it 
> > > > looks like it builds fine against libjpeg8 with the current Build-Depends.
> > > 
> > > Yes, only a binary-only NMU is required. 
> > > 
> > Does the temporary mismatch cause any actual issue?
> 
> 50 to 100 packages failed to build in my latest rebuild because of that.

Could you point to some of them ? 
I know about 62 packages with conflicting build-dependency but this is unrelated to
this discrepancy. (At least a binary-only NMU of libtiff4 would not fix that).

Cheers,
Bill.