Bug 2355

Summary:	libtiff.so.4 required for Crayon Physics
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Reinout van Schouwen <reinout>
Component:	New RPM package request	Assignee:	Mageia Bug Squad <bugsquad>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal	CC:	lists.jjorge
Version:	1
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Source RPM:		CVE:
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Description Reinout van Schouwen 2011-08-01 15:17:21 CEST

Description of problem:

The Humble Indie Bundle #3 contains the game Crayon Physics.
This game requires libtiff.so.4 which is unavailable through the Mageia repositories.

Comment 1 José Jorge 2011-08-01 15:33:44 CEST

libtiff.so.4 is beta software, even Fedora does not bring it.
So, the Crayon Physics game should not have been linked against it. Please report the bug to them.

Reference :
http://www.remotesensing.org/libtiff/

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
CC: (none) => lists.jjorge
Resolution: (none) => WONTFIX

Comment 2 Reinout van Schouwen 2011-08-01 15:45:31 CEST

(In reply to comment #1)
> libtiff.so.4 is beta software, even Fedora does not bring it.
> So, the Crayon Physics game should not have been linked against it. Please
> report the bug to them.
> 
> Reference :
> http://www.remotesensing.org/libtiff/

According to this topic [ http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?p=1499462#post1499462 ] it is sufficient to symlink libtiff.so.4 to libtiff.so.3 (have to test it on Mageia). However your reply is unsatisfactory from a user point of view: somebody who buys the Humble Indie Bundle #3 will find that the game doesn't work and be disappointed. Of course we can report the bug to the developers (if they have some kind of feedback channel) but that will take ages to be fixed.

Comment 3 José Jorge 2011-08-01 21:44:23 CEST

(In reply to comment #2)
> According to this topic [
> http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?p=1499462#post1499462 ] it is
> sufficient to symlink libtiff.so.4 to libtiff.so.3 (have to test it on Mageia).

You can always do that kind of weird things, but it will crash if it really uses version 4 functions.

> However your reply is unsatisfactory from a user point of view: somebody who
> buys the Humble Indie Bundle #3 will find that the game doesn't work and be
> disappointed. Of course we can report the bug to the developers (if they have
> some kind of feedback channel) but that will take ages to be fixed.

What would you say if a game for MacOSX only runs on 10.x.y which is only available on a beta channel? This game was badly compiled, they must link staticaly this lib if they want their game to run on any Linux.