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Bug#1027283: transition: tiff

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Hi László

On 2022-12-29 18:19:58 +0100, László Böszörményi wrote:
> Package: release.debian.org
> Severity: normal
> User: release.debian.org@packages.debian.org
> Usertags: transition
> 
> Hi RMs,
> 
> Unplanned transition of tiff as its new release is just recently out.
> The API seems to be the same, but the ABI is changed. Basic reason is
> that its behaviour is changed and returns quicker from processing
> invalid images.
> While it's a big transition, nine levels deep, test rebuilds show in
> the first five levels only two package self-testing breaks. I've
> already patched one of them. Currently it only hard breaks hylafax
> which seems to be a dead project since 2012; a memory corruption and a
> security fix was committed to it, but even those happened in 2018 or
> earlier. Anyway, I've notified tiff upstream and will act accordingly.
> 
> As tiff is used commonly and has security issues from time to time it
> would be good to have its latest release in Debian. I don't know if
> the old version will get any fixes or not.

Understood. Please let us know once you're done with the test rebuilds
and have filed all bugs.

Cheers
-- 
Sebastian Ramacher

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Bug#1027283: transition: tiff László Böszörményi (GCS) <gcs@debian.org> - 2022-12-29 18:30 +0100
  Bug#1027283: transition: tiff Sebastian Ramacher <sramacher@debian.org> - 2022-12-31 13:10 +0100
    Bug#1027283: transition: tiff László Böszörményi (GCS) <gcs@debian.org> - 2023-01-01 20:50 +0100
    Bug#1027283: transition: tiff László Böszörményi (GCS) <gcs@debian.org> - 2023-01-08 09:10 +0100
      Bug#1027283: transition: tiff Sebastian Ramacher <sramacher@debian.org> - 2023-01-10 22:40 +0100
        Bug#1027283: transition: tiff László Böszörményi (GCS) <gcs@debian.org> - 2023-01-11 07:30 +0100
        Bug#1027283: transition: tiff Sebastiaan Couwenberg <sebastic@xs4all.nl> - 2023-01-13 21:50 +0100
          Bug#1027283: transition: tiff Sebastian Ramacher <sramacher@debian.org> - 2023-01-14 20:20 +0100

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