The reason that the soname is different in Debian and upstream is explained in /usr/share/doc/libtiff4/README.Debian:
This version of libtiff is installed with a different shared library soname from the upstream version. This is because an accidental change to the library's ABI was introduced somewhere between 3.5.7 and 3.6.1. There are no source-level incompatibilities between 3.5.7 and the current version, so any application that worked with 3.5.7 should work fine when recompiled with the libtiff4 packages. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/456257 Title: Could libtiff.so.3 be provided as a symlink to libtiff.so.4? To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/tiff/+bug/456257/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
