On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 15:50:33 +0200, Dominik George wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have prepared xloadimage for upload to assume maintainership for it,
> and the PTS tells me I should prepare it for the libtiff5 transition.
>
> My understanding is that I should make it build against libtiff5 rather
> tha
> I conclude from that, that I should *in general* not use libtiff5-dev
> right now? Having a apckage build *only* against libtiff5-dev is not
> acceptable, although the package is there and already has dependencies?
I should add that I plan to implement a new feature in xloadimage, which
will not
Hi,
> I meant, you upload your package built against libtiff4-dev, which is
> the status quo. However, you do a build-test where you swap
> libtiff4-dev with libtiff5-dev to see if your package would compile if
> libtiff5-dev had been used instead of libtiff4-dev. So when the time
> comes, all y
On 2013-09-30 16:40, Dominik George wrote:
> Hi,
>
>> Let me clarify, "build against either" here being the source code can
>> compile against either (not having Build-Depends that allow either).
>
> Huh? That means, if I Build-Depend on libtiff5-dev, it still has to
> build against libtiff4? I d
Hi,
> Let me clarify, "build against either" here being the source code can
> compile against either (not having Build-Depends that allow either).
Huh? That means, if I Build-Depend on libtiff5-dev, it still has to
build against libtiff4? I do not get that…
Cheers,
Nik
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On 2013-09-30 16:29, Dominik George wrote:
> Hi Niels,
>
>> Now, I am not sure tiff counts as your "average transition". Since it
>> involves two source packages instead of just one. If your (patched)
>> package can be build against either the new or the old version of
>> libtiff, then I suspect
Hi Niels,
> Now, I am not sure tiff counts as your "average transition". Since it
> involves two source packages instead of just one. If your (patched)
> package can be build against either the new or the old version of
> libtiff, then I suspect an upload is not a problem at this time.
That mea
On 2013-09-30 15:50, Dominik George wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have prepared xloadimage for upload to assume maintainership for it,
> and the PTS tells me I should prepare it for the libtiff5 transition.
>
> My understanding is that I should make it build against libtiff5 rather
> than libtiff4, and that
Hi,
> My understanding is that I should make it build against libtiff5 rather
> than libtiff4, and that is what I did. My understanding is that this
> will bring forward the transition.
another DD now explained to me that problems may arise with library
packages that have reverse dependencies, be
Hi,
I have prepared xloadimage for upload to assume maintainership for it,
and the PTS tells me I should prepare it for the libtiff5 transition.
My understanding is that I should make it build against libtiff5 rather
than libtiff4, and that is what I did. My understanding is that this
will bring
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