[oe] Updating libtiff

Frans Meulenbroeks fransmeulenbroeks at gmail.com
Thu Oct 7 13:57:45 UTC 2010


2010/10/7 Tom Rini <tom_rini at mentor.com>:
> Hey all,
>
> I'm looking to update libtiff to cover some security issues in the version
> we ship, and I noticed something funny about how we do it today.  Currently
> tiff_3.9.2.bb sets PV to 3.9.2+4.0.0beta5 and grabs and builds 4.0.0beta5.
>  While it's possible that in the past 3.9.2 was intended to be the last
> 3.9.x, it wasn't.
>
> I think we should go with:
> - Add tiff_4.0.0beta6.bb which should be compatible with beta5 and will get
> upgrades right.
> - Add tiff_3.9.4.bb as well, in case someone wants to stay on the released
> line.
>
> Anyone see a problem with that?
>

Fine with me. I made the PV after discussion on ML or irc.
People told me that as it was a beta I could not call the recipe 4.0.0.

This is the commit log:

commit c860f51f04d41680100a7fecd2341ecf8f657fe1
Author: Frans Meulenbroeks <fransmeulenbroeks at gmail.com>
Date:   Thu Mar 11 21:08:45 2010 +0100

    tiff: moved to 4.0.0 beta5

    also renamed to 3.9.2 as that is the latest version before 4.0.0

Frans.




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