Bug#558733:

[Francesco P. Lovergine]

On Mon, Sep 05, 2011 at 10:37:12AM +0200, Mathieu Malaterre wrote:
> severity 558733 important
> thanks
> 
> Hi,
> 
>   I understand the issue with libtiff5 not in debian yet. However
> current programs using both geotiff and libgdal simply segfaults on
> debian. Could the Makefiles be updated to use
> 
>   -Wl,--version-script,version_script
> 
>   Or any other mean to prevent this segfault ?
> 

Yep, I will introduce versioning in the incoming 1.8 series to solve
this problem. Unfortunately this will also break binary compatibility
with third-parties programs not built against Debian Gdal. So I will
also expect a few complains about that... :-/

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Francesco P. Lovergine