Re: tiff 4.x (libtiff5) transition

[Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>]

Hi Jay

Disclaimer, I'm not part of the release team but have only one comment
on the message below:

On Sat, Jun 01, 2013 at 02:55:40PM -0400, Jay Berkenbilt wrote:
> It's been a few weeks since my original post about the libtiff
> transition, and I haven't heard any responses.  While I appreciate that
> this is not at the top of your long list, I would really appreciate some
> kind of response if only an indication that you've got it on your list
> and will prioritize it when you have a chance.  Mainly I'm interested to
> know whether you think my plan is sound and whether you have any idea
> when we might be able to move forward.
> 
> In the mean time, I'm going to move forward with uploading new versions,
> etc., without changing the current packaging scheme since I don't want
> to make a change that will make things harder than necessary.  In my
> original message, I mentioned the versions that would be part of the
> transition, so clearly those versions are going to change now.  I just
> don't want anyone to think that I have given up waiting and am going to
> push forward.  Thanks.

The problem might be the following: debian-release has quite big
amount of traffic and your message might be gone under. You can open a
bugreport against release.debian.org so that the transition can be
documented in the BTS, see examples in [1].

 [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?pkg=release.debian.org;dist=unstable#_0_5_4

Regards,
Salvatore