Control: severity -1 wishlist
Control: retitle -1 links2: Please use unversioned libtiff-dev rather than
libtiff4-dev
Hi Artur,
Artur Rona wrote:
> It makes libtiff/libpng/libjpeg transitions (like the upcoming
> libtiff5 one) easier if the unversioned virtual package
> libtiff-dev/libpng-dev/libjpeg-dev is used instead of
> libtiff4-dev/libpng12-dev/libjpeg8-dev.
With the exception of libtiff4-dev this patch actually just _removes_
alternative build-dependencies. I never understood why Ubuntu did
that. Can you elaborate?
> Attached patch fixes also the bug #662420.
Actually I already asked a similar question in that bug, but I never
got an answer from the original bug reporter.
> Thanks for considering the patch.
For now I consider applying the following patch:
- libtiff4-dev,
+ libtiff5-dev | libtiff-dev,
since libpng-dev, libjpeg-dev, and libtiff-dev are only virtual
packages and I vaguely remember that the use of non-virtual
build-dependencies is preferred over virtual ones.
(Feel free to correct me here, as I can't remember the source for
that, but it was a buildd-related issue.)
Regards, Axel
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