Bug#558733:

[Francesco P. Lovergine]

On Mon, Sep 05, 2011 at 02:02:01PM +0200, Mathieu Malaterre wrote:
> Recent posting also mention to use the latest release candidate as a release:
> 
> http://www.asmail.be/msg0054536609.html
> 
> ...
> The code is in fairly wide production use, but for various
> reasons we have had trouble making the transition to a
> libtiff 4 final release.  So my advice is go ahead an use
> it as if the latest alpha/beta is a ready release.
> 
> Note that the latest release is at:
> 
>   http://download.osgeo.org/libtiff/
> 
> and is 4.0.0beta7

Of course one could always have installed both the old and the new libraries
and build against one of the two. But this is definitively a choice of
the maintainer and possibly RMs.

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Francesco P. Lovergine