Bug#1027283: transition: tiff
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Hi László
On 2022-12-29 18:19:58 +0100, László Böszörményi wrote:
> Package: release.debian.org
> Severity: normal
> User: release.debian.org@packages.debian.org
> Usertags: transition
>
> Hi RMs,
>
> Unplanned transition of tiff as its new release is just recently out.
> The API seems to be the same, but the ABI is changed. Basic reason is
> that its behaviour is changed and returns quicker from processing
> invalid images.
> While it's a big transition, nine levels deep, test rebuilds show in
> the first five levels only two package self-testing breaks. I've
> already patched one of them. Currently it only hard breaks hylafax
> which seems to be a dead project since 2012; a memory corruption and a
> security fix was committed to it, but even those happened in 2018 or
> earlier. Anyway, I've notified tiff upstream and will act accordingly.
>
> As tiff is used commonly and has security issues from time to time it
> would be good to have its latest release in Debian. I don't know if
> the old version will get any fixes or not.
Understood. Please let us know once you're done with the test rebuilds
and have filed all bugs.
Cheers
--
Sebastian Ramacher
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