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authorVladimír Čunát <vcunat@gmail.com>2018-08-10 10:36:23 +0200
committerVladimír Čunát <vcunat@gmail.com>2018-08-10 10:36:23 +0200
commit4596251dd194cb34c83f02c152800deb7deb9f21 (patch)
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libtiff: add a comment about the patches
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-rw-r--r--pkgs/development/libraries/libtiff/default.nix2
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/libtiff/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/libtiff/default.nix
index d37e93e6f82..bf0393fd89a 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/libtiff/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/libtiff/default.nix
@@ -13,6 +13,8 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
 
   prePatch = let
       debian = fetchurl {
+        # When the URL disappears, it typically means that Debian has new patches
+        # (probably security) and updating to new tarball will apply them as well.
         url = http://http.debian.net/debian/pool/main/t/tiff/tiff_4.0.9-6.debian.tar.xz;
         sha256 = "10yk5npchxscgsnd7ihd3bbbw2fxkl7ni0plm43c9q4nwp6ms52f";
       };