Re: RFC: Migrating to TIFF 4.0.1
On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 04:02:33PM +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Francesco P. Lovergine <frankie@debian.org> (25/02/2012):
> > 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.
>
> (just a quick remark about libtiff4 vs. libtiff5 itself)
>
> I didn't follow very closely, but I think tiff is getting symbols
> versioning; I also think libtiff5 was the first package to have it; so
> if packages are rebuilt against a symbols versioning-enable libtiff4
> (which you can track at [1], that should be OK?
>
> 1. http://release.debian.org/transitions/html/libtiff4-symbols.html
>
> Mraw,
> KiBi.
Right, so it should be ok just asking for a set of bNMUs
for all packages that both link geotiff and old tiff.
--
Francesco P. Lovergine
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