2009.07.17 00:42 "[Tiff] Compression algorithm does not support random access.", by Bob Friesenhahn

2009.08.21 16:19 "Re: [Tiff] libtiff 4.0.0beta3", by Jay Berkenbilt

Frank Warmerdam <warmerdam@pobox.com> wrote:

> Folks,
>
> With Bob's help I have uploaded a snapshot of CVS head which I have
> dubbed libtiff 4.0.0 beta3.
>

>    http://download.osgeo.org/libtiff/tiff-4.0.0beta3.tar.gz
>    http://download.osgeo.org/libtiff/tiff-4.0.0beta3.zip

>

> I would appreciate folks trying this out and reporting outstanding issues

> via bugzilla. Ideally I'd like to prepare a libtiff 4.0.0 release candidate > within the next month.

Now that 3.9.0 is out, I'd like to go ahead and upload 4.0.0 beta something to debian's experimental distribution. Should I take this 7-month old beta release, or can we get a new 4.0.0 beta? Either way is fine. In this case, I may just prepare a 4.0.0 beta 3 upload for debian's experimental while I'm waiting anyway, but I won't try to roll my own from the trunk.

Once 4.0.0 is released, I do intend to upload it to debian, but since it is a known ABI change, it will have to be coordinated with the debian release team and therefore probably won't happen that quickly. But I can put it in experimental any time.

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Jay Berkenbilt <ejb@ql.org>