I (in discussion with others) had decided earlier to wait until Sarge before packaging tiff 3.7.0, but there are now four reasons why I think we should move ahead:
* tiff 3.7.0 has been out for some time now and has had time to be shown to be stable * a handful of debian tiff package bugs currently outstanding or recently fixed are either fixed in 3.7.0 or have been backported from 3.7.0 * 3.7.0 is definitely binary compatible with 3.6.1, so no library transition is required * Other big packages, like GNOME 2.8, are going into Sarge. Besides, a binary compatible libtiff update is small, unobtrusive, and easily rolled back if there are any problems. I stay on top of issues with libtiff and am follow the upstream mailing lists. I am planning on preparing packages for libtiff 3.7.0, and I will be going through all the debian-specific changes on 3.6.1 carefully to make sure I understand them and understand how they are dealt with in 3.7.0. Unless I hear any objections, I will arrange to have these uploaded very soon. Comments? -- Jay Berkenbilt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.ql.org/q/
