libtiff.so.3 missing, Re: xarchiver extract MP540_RPM_drivers.tar doesn't work. F19 LXDE desktop (Beta TC4)

[Adam Williamson]

On Mon, 2013-05-13 at 12:37 -0400, Joerg Lechner wrote:
> I have downloaded the last version of this Canon printer driver:
> Dateiversion: 3.0, Dateigröße: 12.1 MB, 
> Dateiname: MP540_RPM_drivers.tar

There's nothing much we can do here. They've linked dynamically against
a very old version of libtiff. libtiff is not listed in LSB that I can
see, so we're not obliged to carry some old version of it for LSB
compliance, and Fedora in general is reluctant to carry -compat packages
with old builds of libraries unless there's a really clear need for it,
and one random printer driver probably doesn't constitute a 'really
clear need'. The only thing Fedora could potentially do here is
introduce a libtiff3-compat or whatever package, but I doubt that'd
happen, and barring that, all you can do is source some old build of
libtiff yourself, or ask Canon to improve their driver package.
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