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Some clues about testing a libtiff update candidate.

A libtiff update comes usually with :

• libtiffX (where X is the major lib version number)
• libtiff-progs
• devel packages: testing not required

We have to test that programs linking to libtiff still work for handling tiff files, and that handling tiff files with libtiff-progs works well too.

Test examples :

• convert a bmp to tiff with bmp2tiff

$ bmp2tiff test.bmp test.tif

• convert a tiff to pdf with tiff2pdf

$ tiff2pdf test.tif > test.pdf #and check the resulting pdf

• gather information from a tiff file with tiffinfo

$ tiffinfo test.tif

• open a tiff file in gimp

$ gimp test.tif

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