Public bug reported:
(I am the debian maintainer for tiff and tiff3)
A transition is nearing completion in debian for tiff, and once it is
done, I will be requesting removal of the tiff3 package. However, I
don't expect this to happen before the sync freeze for trusty. I don't
know if you have a way to do it, but it seems like excluding tiff3,
which no longer supplies any dev packages, from trusty might be a good
idea as it will reduce by two years the amount of time people have to
worry about backporting security fixes. The tiff packages get lots of
security bugs filed against them, and it's getting harder to backport
these to the 3.x series. At this point, assuming everything
successfully builds from source for trusty, there should be no binary
packages in trusty that depend on tiff3.
** Affects: tiff3 (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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tiff3 is disappearing from debian soon
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