Re: dropping libtiff4-dev transitional package
Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org> wrote:
> On 23/06/14 21:20, Jay Berkenbilt wrote:
>>
>> There are 27 packages (including 1 "pending upload") left that still
>> have build dependencies on libtiff4-dev:
>>
>> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?tag=libtiff4-dev;users=qjb@debian.org
>>
>> At this point, I'd like to go ahead and remove libtiff4-dev and change
>> these to "serious" since they will be FTBFS. I'm thinking most people
>> will probably fix their packages soon after this, and I can work on NMUs
>> for the rest after a little more time. I think we should act soon if we
>> want go get the libtiff4-dev transitional out of the archive before
>> jessie.
>>
>> Any objections?
>
> Sounds good to me.
>
> Cheers,
> Emilio
Does it need a hint to transition to jessie? tiff-4.0.3-10 is not going
because of the (intentional) disappearance of binary package
libtiff4-dev.
--
Jay Berkenbilt <qjb@debian.org>
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