Bug#663681: RM: python-libtiff/0.3.0~svn78-2

[Mathieu Malaterre <mathieu.malaterre@gmail.com>]

On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 10:54 PM, Adam D. Barratt
<adam@adam-barratt.org.uk> wrote:
> On Tue, 2012-03-13 at 11:54 +0100, Mathieu Malaterre wrote:
>> pylibtiff does not support the new tiff5 package. Please remove pylibtiff from testing.
>
> That's okay right now.
>
>> See #663490 for information
>
> That bug seems slightly confused.  It says "it is not important it is
> critical since tiff5 entered testing and tiff4 was removed", but
> libtiff4 is still in testing; it's just provided by the "tiff3" source
> package now.

Point taken. However I cannot make any sense of the python documentation:
http://docs.python.org/library/ctypes.html#finding-shared-libraries

In my case:

$ python
>>> import ctypes.util
>>> lib = ctypes.util.find_library('tiff')
>>> print lib
libtiff.so.5

where:

$ ls -al /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtiff.so.*  *
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     16 Feb 20 14:59
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtiff.so -> libtiff.so.4.3.6
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     16 Feb 20 14:59
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtiff.so.4 -> libtiff.so.4.3.6
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 412208 Feb 20 14:59
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtiff.so.4.3.6
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     16 Feb 20 14:48
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtiff.so.5 -> libtiff.so.5.0.6
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 462488 Feb 20 14:48
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtiff.so.5.0.6

I'll need to find some python-guru for that to help me out.

-- 
Mathieu