Am Sun, Jan 16, 2022 at 11:51:43AM +0100 schrieb Étienne Mollier: > At some point I tried investigating how to reproduce the tiff > test failure with minimum requirements, to determine whether the > problem comes from the way itk4 calls the library, or if the > library itself is at fault, but I must admit I didn't manage to > get very far on that front given the intricaties of the test > system. > > At this point, we don't have the cycles to maintain an itk4 > legacy library for more Debian releases. However, in case itk4 > were really needed, an option which does not involve sacrificing > some test results could be to reinject the embedded code copy of > tiff 4.0.3 in itk4,
... or alternatively drop that specific test, > and adjust d/rules to not use the operating > system tiff library. This could work. The drawback is that it > makes it problematic to maintain security wise, when issues must > be corrected in the tiff library, but I don't see other simple > options. I think the roadmap that ITK4 will be deleted as soon as possible is clear. However, if it might serve as an intermediate means to support some remaining dependencies temporarily I think it is OK to do some tricks that would not be acceptable as long term means. Kind regards Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de