Control: tags -1 moreinfo Hi László
On 2022-12-29 18:19:58 +0100, László Böszörményi wrote: > Package: release.debian.org > Severity: normal > User: release.debian....@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
