[GRASS5] [bug #2662] (grass) 5.7 debianization : libtiff3g-dev is no longer availalable in debian/sid

[Markus Neteler]

On Thu, Oct 14, 2004 at 12:36:44PM +0200, Request Tracker wrote:
> this bug's URL: http://intevation.de/rt/webrt?serial_num=2662
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> Subject: 5.7 debianization : libtiff3g-dev is no longer availalable in debian/sid
> 
> Platform: GNU/Linux/i386 
> grass obtained from: Mirror of Trento site 
> grass binary for platform: Compiled from Sources 
> GRASS Version: 5.7.0 
>  
> Hello,  
>   
> I'd downloaded the 5.7 sources from   
> http://grass.ibiblio.org/grass57/source/  
> [The source package is time-stamped, there "17-Jun-2004"]  
>   
>   
> It was great to see that there's already a 'debian' directory in the  
> unpacked GRASS 5.7 sources.  
>   
> I tried to 'debuild' 5.7, then (using debian/sid, locally).  
>   
> The debian 'control' file for 5.7 includes a build-dependency on   
> libtiff3g-dev  
>   
> It appears that there is no longer a libtiff3g-dev in debian/sid  
>   
>   
> As an attempt at a workaround, I've adjusted the "libtiff3g-dev" build  
> dependency, locally, to be "libtiff3g-dev| libtiff4-dev"; I'm not entirely  
> sure if it'll build, now, but I'm certainly hopeful  

Hi Sean,

I have updated the control file.

Please let me recommend to get the CVS snapshot as
it is much more advanced than 5.7.0 (we'll get out a new
release in near future). Just to avoid that you waste time
on problems which have been already solved.

Cheers

 Markus