On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 08:27:34AM +0200, László Böszörményi (GCS) wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 11:23 PM, Moritz Muehlenhoff <j...@debian.org> wrote:
> > upstream is dropping the tiff tools in the upcoming 4.0.7 release,
> > see e.g. http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2552
> As I read, only the gif2tiff binary is going to be removed. The other
> 18, like tiffinfo, tiff2ps, tiffsplit and so on will remain, right?
> All of those scheduled to be dropped?
You're right. I doublechecked the CVS repo and in fact some of the tiff utils
will remain, see this commit:
2016-06-05 Bob Friesenhahn <bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us>
* tools/Makefile.am: The libtiff tools bmp2tiff, gif2tiff,
ras2tiff, sgi2tiff, sgisv, and ycbcr are completely removed from
the distribution. The libtiff tools rgb2ycbcr and thumbnail are
only built in the build tree for testing. Old files are put in
new 'archive' subdirectory of the source repository, but not in
distribution archives. These changes are made in order to lessen
the maintenance burden.
> > A few reverse dependencies need to be fixed/updated:
> Only if these depends on the specific executable, this case gif2tiff,
> right? These still can use the other binaries.
Ack, so only those using bmp2tiff, gif2tiff, ras2tiff, sgi2tiff, sgisv,
ycbcrrgb2ycbcr and thumbnail will need to be fixed.
Cheers,
Moritz
