1 files changed, 7 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/buildtools/debian/mkdeb b/buildtools/debian/mkdeb
index 42a986eb..d1a88dc8 100755
--- a/buildtools/debian/mkdeb
+++ b/buildtools/debian/mkdeb
@@ -10,6 +10,10 @@
 #  package (what Debian contains is derived from Sourceforge Netpbm ca.
 #  2002).
 #
+#  The dependencies this package declares are those that can be satisfied by
+#  Debian 8 (Jessie).  Netpbm works fine on other versions of Debian, but you
+#  may have to change the dependencies in this program or ignore dependencies
+#  at install time.
 ###############################################################################
 
 use strict;
@@ -111,8 +115,8 @@ sub control($$) {
 
 # The Debian packaging system doesn't provide a way to express Netpbm's actual
 # prerequisites.  For example, Netpbm needs Version 6.2 or better of Libjpeg,
-# but there is no way to state that here.  Instead, we state Libjpeg 8.
-# This makes the Netpbm package less useful.
+# but there is no way to state that here.  Instead, we state Libjpeg 6.2
+# exactly.  This makes the Netpbm package less useful.
 
     my %control;
 
@@ -135,8 +139,7 @@ sub control($$) {
         'libc6, ' .
         'libjpeg62, ' .
         'libpng12-0, ' .
-        'libsvga1, ' .
-        'libtiff4, ' .
+        'libtiff5, ' .
         'libx11-6, ' .
         'libxml2, ' .
         'zlib1g, ' .