All,
I have read this thread:
https://www.asmail.be/msg0055010410.html
... and I have read the v4.6.0 release notes:
http://www.simplesystems.org/libtiff/releases/v4.6.0.html
However, I do not see mentioned any reasonable direction to follow for
users of the unsupported/archived tools and features. (Forever using
binaries of v4.5.1 tools is a silly suggestion. That would only work
until the ABI breaks... which it eventually will.)
What the plan is for those of us who need those tools? Does the
community have a plan?
I understand that there are known security issues, etc., but those
problems are not relevant for where HylaFAX uses these tools (usually
against received faxes, and occasionally against Ghostscript output).
Comments that I've seen which suggest that nobody could sensibly use
these tools because of the known long-running CVEs are simply out of
touch with the real-world use cases of these tools.
HylaFAX uses fax2ps, tiff2bw, tiffdither, tiff2ps, tiff2pdf, *and*
HylaFAX also uses the "-i" feature for tiffcp.
I suppose that I could go through a lot of work to rewrite the HylaFAX
processes that utilize these things and figure out different ways of
accomplishing the same, but I'm far more inclined to just copy these
tools into HylaFAX source code, rename them, and then go from there.
However, I don't want to do that if the community already has a plan to
maintain these tools elsewhere.
So, before I start with the process of putting these tools directly into
HylaFAX does the community have a plan?
Thank you,
Lee.
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