On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 16:59:27 -0500, Jay Berkenbilt wrote: > Julien Cristau <jcris...@debian.org> wrote: > > > On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 16:02:17 -0500, Jay Berkenbilt wrote: > > > >> If you're good with this plan, give me the word, and I will do the > >> upload. I can probably take care of the mass bug filing...I can script > >> it locally unless you have a quick way to do it. > >> > > Sounds good to me, I think we can go ahead with this. > > I've got it ready to go but with two changes, so I wanted to get > confirmation. > > 1. Why is it necessary for the transition packages to depend on the > binary libraries and not just the dev package? If libtiff4-dev and > libtiff5-alt-dev depend on libtiff5-dev (>> 4.0.3-6~), isn't this > sufficient? Is there some special reason that the dependency on > libtiff5 (and presumably also libtiffxx5) has to be explicit? > None, as far as I know.
> 2. I think I'm going punt on libtiff4-alt-dev. Fedora switched over
> to tiff 4.x a while ago and never provided any way for people to build
> against 3.x libraries. There were only something like 3 packages that
> had any issues, and by now, fixes are available in all cases. Also,
> unlike libtiff5-alt-dev, which was totally transparent because of
> pkg-config, tiff 3.x doesn't use pkg-config, so having people use it
> would require changes to their builds anyway.
>
> The new package will 4.0.3-6. For libtiff4-dev and libtiff5-alt-dev,
> both provided by the "tiff" source package, I have
>
> Depends: ${misc:Depends}, libtiff5-dev (>> 4.0.3-6~)
>
> and for libtiff5-dev, I have
>
> Replaces: libtiff5-alt-dev (<< 4.0.3-6~), libtiff4-dev (<< 4.0.3-6~)
> Conflicts: libtiff5-alt-dev (<< 4.0.3-6~), libtiff4-dev (<< 4.0.3-6~)
> Provides: libtiff-dev
>
> For the tiff3 package, I just dropped the libtiff4-dev package and the
> provides of libtiff-dev along with it. There will be no -dev package
> for tiff 3.x.
>
Seems fine to me. I think the Conflicts could be Breaks, but that can
always be changed later anyway.
Cheers,
Julien
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