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tiff package

  1. Bug #456257
  2. Comment #3

Comment 3 for bug 456257

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Geir Ove Myhr (gomyhr) wrote :

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.