I'm quoting the entire old thread below since it's been a while, but I have a solution now unless the release team rejects it.
> Yaroslav Halchenko <deb...@onerussian.com> wrote: > > there seems to be a new build-depends complication: > > libgeotiff-dev depends on libtiff5-dev, > > libtiff5-dev is not (yet) providing libtiff-dev (but conflicting > with libtiff4-dev providing > it) > > itk4 and libvtk5-dev depending on libtiff-dev > > that makes it impossible to satisfy build-depends (tried on sparc)... > > but now I am totally confused: > > http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=libtiff5-dev > says that > > experimental: Virtual package > provided by: libtiff-dev > > but http://packages.debian.org/experimental/libtiff-dev > Package: libtiff-dev (4.0.0~beta6-3 and others) > mentions it available only for alpha and hppa > > Jay -- could you please clarify the situation? what is that libtiff-dev > source > package in experimental ? or/and when libtiff5-dev would provide > libtiff-dev? > > or am I missing the point here? You had pointed out before that libtiff5-dev and libtiff4-dev can't be installed at the same time, which makes it impossible for something with an indirect dependency on libtiff4-dev to have a dependency on libtiff5-dev. The release team has rejected a few of my approaches to fixing this (until after wheezy, at which point, plan A can be implemented). In the interim, I'm planning on uploading libtiff5-alt-dev, which installs the libtiff5-dev files in a location that doesn't conflict with libtiff4-dev. You can then make your package build depend on libtiff5-alt-dev instead. If your package uses pkg-config to find the tiff headers and libraries, you don't have do anything else -- this will just work. If it doesn't use this, then you can set your include and library paths manually based on the output of pkg-config --cflags libtiff-4 and pkg-config --libs libtiff-4. If all goes well, I will do the upload today, and the packages will appear whenever they clear NEW. Does this sound okay? -- Jay Berkenbilt <q...@debian.org> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-med-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120519104819.1611911245.qww314159@soup