Quack, On 2020-12-16 16:54, Jeff wrote:
The version of libtiff-tools in testing still outputs to stderr, so I am inclined to say this is not (yet) a Debian bug, and certainly not important.
That's a tad rude. I understand you're preparing the release but the meaning of a bug is not up to discussion, problems in unstable, and even in experimental have always been considered bugs. As the package was almost unusable since my scans were lost I could even have raised the severity to prevent a broken version to enter testing and end-up in the release. I think you're confusing the severity of the bug itself and the priority generated by the situation (which has no real field in the BTS).
Indeed, your patch will break the version of gscan2pdf in testing.
As expected libtiff flowed into testing so this is no longer valid.
Does the attached patch also fix your problem?
Yes it does. Using 'both' is clever and I think proposing the patch upstream would be a better solution (considering other distros and custom installs).
Regards. -- Marc Dequènes
