RFC: Migrating to TIFF 4.0.1

["Francesco P. Lovergine" <frankie@debian.org>]

Hi RMs 

I'm going to link GeoTiff against the new libtiff5. Of course, the Geotiff
library does not change its own interface and soname at all, but a few rdeps
link both GeoTIFF AND the old TIFF, so a similar change is requested for
those programs. In the meantime, I would expect some breakages in those
packages which would try linking both the new and the old TIFF library. 

The result I suspect would depend on the order of linking (but I'm not 
sure about that). A better plan would be introducing an ad-hoc SONAME
in current GeoTIFF and manage a proper transition for all. This would
be also a better solution for non packaged programs out there.

Do you confirm?

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Francesco P. Lovergine