> I am really unclear on whether there will be fallout from tools removal.
I have scripts that use tiff2ps. ImageMagick can convert tiffs to ps, but some versions of ImageMagick shift or scale the image. tiff2ps works. I think that with a ps-based workflow, tiff2ps is the best tools to convert tiffs to eps. I don't mind building tiff2ps from source, but I'm hoping that if something breaks, patches to tiff2ps.c will be accepted. William ________________________________ From: Tiff <tiff-boun...@lists.osgeo.org> on behalf of Greg Troxel <g...@lexort.com> Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2023 3:26 PM To: Even Rouault <even.roua...@spatialys.com> Cc: tiff@lists.osgeo.org <tiff@lists.osgeo.org> Subject: Re: [Tiff] libtiff 4.6.0 is released Even Rouault <even.roua...@spatialys.com> writes: > I've promoted rc2 as the final 4.6.0 release. Thanks for all your efforts on tiff. > Read about this release at > https://libtiff.gitlab.io/libtiff/releases/v4.6.0.html > > Pay attention to the following warning: > > This version removes a big number of utilities that have suffered > from lack of maintenance over the years and were the source of > various reported security issues. See "Removed functionality" > below for the list of removed utilities. Starting with libtiff > v4.6.0, their source code, at this time, will still be available > in the source distribution, but they will no longer be built by > default, and issues related to them will no longer be accepted in > the libtiff bug tracker. The only remaining supported TIFF tools > are tiffinfo, tiffdump, tiffcp, tiffset and tiffsplit. Because of where pkgsrc is on its quarterly release schedule -- going into freeze in just under 6 days for the next branch -- I have decided to defer updating until just after the branch. This is an FYI not a complaint; release cycles are just like this. I don't see any urgent security fixes, but please let me know if I read that wrong. If so, it may be better to take the pain during the branch. I am really unclear on whether there will be fallout from tools removal. Again not a complaint; I just don't like surprises. My expectation is very little to maybe none, and that if so it will be run time not build/install/package time. So if anyone updates tiff in a packaging system, and does or doesn't find issues, I would appreciate a note here from fellow packagers. I'll post myself after updating. Thanks, Greg _______________________________________________ Tiff mailing list Tiff@lists.osgeo.org https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/tiff
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