Bug#777695: RFA: tiff -- TIFF manipulation and conversion documentation
Package: wnpp
Severity: normal
I request an adopter for the tiff package since I no longer have time to
maintain it properly.
The package description is:
libtiff is a library providing support for the Tag Image File Format
(TIFF), a widely used format for storing image data. This package
contains documentation.
Additional notes:
The tiff package has many important reverse dependencies. Upstream is
mostly inactive, but there is still some occasional forward movement.
The tiff package gets lots of security incidents against it, so whoever
maintains it has to be prepared for these. Additionally, it includes a
number of older command-line utilities that are buggy. In most cases,
there are better alternatives, but those tools are still in wide use.
Upstream has a habit of accidentally breaking binary compatibility, so
extra scrutiny is required when handling new upstream releases, which
are infrequent.
The tiff packages are in good shape right now. Debian and virtually all
the distributions have successfully completed the transition to tiff
4.x. There is also a "tiff3" source package that was transitional for
the wheezy release only. It contains no dev or tools packages -- only
runtime library. It gets occasional security updates. The tiff packages
are relatively low effort to maintain, but they do need to be handled
with care.
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