Re: Updating xloadimage to libtiff5

[Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>]

On 2013-09-30 16:40, Dominik George wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>> Let me clarify, "build against either" here being the source code can
>> compile against either (not having Build-Depends that allow either).
> 
> Huh? That means, if I Build-Depend on libtiff5-dev, it still has to
> build against libtiff4? I do not get that…
> 
> Cheers,
> Nik
> 

I meant, you upload your package built against libtiff4-dev, which is
the status quo.  However, you do a build-test where you swap
libtiff4-dev with libtiff5-dev to see if your package would compile if
libtiff5-dev had been used instead of libtiff4-dev.  So when the time
comes, all you have to do, is to swap libtiff4-dev with libtiff5-dev.

I believe we prefer having unversioned -dev packages and the "new"
version in experimental.  Had the tiff-transition been like that, I
would have asked you to prepare for the transition by testing your
package against the version of libtiff that would have been in experimental.

~Niels