On Fri, 21 Aug 2015 02:09:09 +0000 (UTC) notify@aur.archlinux.org wrote:
Toost_Inc [1] filed a request to merge libtiff4 [2] into libtiff3 [3]:
Both packages essentially provide the same libraries, with one depending on another but using another symlink (`libtiff.so.4` instead of `libtiff.so.3`), which could be easily added to the other package.
It's quite a mess, creates weird dependency circles and has conflicting files to to top it off.
I've created a patch [*], that will solve this problem, which I've also posted in the comments of the libtiff3 package.
[*] https://gist.github.com/ToostInc/e94039b0d077d8251965
[1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/Toost_Inc/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/libtiff4/ [3] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/libtiff3/
I think they're fine separate, but I would do it the other way around. Make libtiff3 the main package (since that's the upstream soname), then make a separate libtiff4 package that just has the symlinks and nothing else. There's a lot of other simplification I would do, as well, but it should work as-is. Doug