libtiff for Debian
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This version of libtiff, 3.7.2, 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 3.7.2, so any application that worked with 3.5.7
should work fine when recompiled with the libtiff4 packages.

libtiff version 3.7.1 introduced an experimental and somewhat volatile
C++ interface.  To use it, you must link against -ltiffxx.  Please
note that the API and ABI of the C++ library may be unstable for a
while.

Example tiff files are available:

 ftp://ftp.remotesensing.org/pub/libtiff/pics-3.7.2.tar.gz

These files may be useful for people testing software to make sure it
can work with a wide variety of tiff files.

 -- Jay Berkenbilt <qjb@debian.org>, Sat Mar 19 14:50:50 2005
