If you maintain a debian package that directly uses libtiff or if you maintain software that uses libtiff, it would be a great help if you could test your packages against the version of libtiff in experimental, 4.0.0~beta4. If you find any problems, please report them as bugs against the tiff package in the debian BTS. If you test and everything works fine, I'd like to know that as well as I can communicate back to upstream.
The 4.0 release supports bigtiff (64-bit offsets) and old-style jpeg compression. It is *mostly* but not entirely source compatible with the 3.x series. For details, please see http://libtiff.maptools.org/v4.0.0.html With libtiff 4.0.0, debian and upstream will be back in sync with shared library version numbering. In fact, the debian package for 4.0.0 beta 4 now contains no patches at all -- all debian patches have been incorporated upstream. The shared library runtime packages install as libtiff5, so they can coexist with the versions in sid/squeeze. The development package, libtiff-dev, conflicts with libtiff4-dev from sid/squeeze. Thanks! -- Jay Berkenbilt <q...@debian.org> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
