On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 20:46:11 -0500, Jay Berkenbilt wrote: > Much to my surprise, upstream looks like they are going to take it. I > started a thread on the tiff list today, and one of the primary > maintainers already introduced a change in their CVS to make this > possible. > Awesome news, thanks. > I think the process will be > > 1. Introduce a symbol-versioned version of tiff 3.x > 2. Binary NMU everything so that all existing libraries and programs > link with the symbol-versioned tiff 3.x > 3. Introduce a symbol-versioned tiff 4.x using something akin to my > original plan of having a tiff3 source package with 3.9.x libraries > only and upgrading the tiff package to use 4.x > > Is this right? Many packages will be able to link with tiff 4.x without > any changes. Anyway, we can discuss the exact mechanics of the > migration after step 2 is done assuming this is more or less right since > I imagine that will still take some time. > That's basically it. Cheers, Julien
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