When discussing a list of libraries to be included in the spec
(http://moblin.org/documentation/moblin-compliance-tools/proposed-library-list),
it was noted that sonames of libtiff and libtiffxx in Debian-based systems
differ from sonames in upstream and other distributions. The reasons of such
situation are explained here: http://www.asmail.be/msg0054917291.html

From functionality point of view, libtiff.so.3 Moblin and, let's say,
libtiff.so.4 in Ubuntu are identical. So it could be reasonable for Ubuntu guys
to provide libtiff.so.3 and libtiffxx.so.3 symlinks to be compatible with other
OSVs.

However, at the current state of art Debian-based systems will fail libchk-me
tests for libtiff and libtiffxx, since they have neither real files nor
symlinks named 'libtiff.so.3' and 'libtifxx.so.3'. 

So someone should discuss this question with OSVs; either the OSVs will provide
symlinks (ot solve the issue in some other way) or tiff libraries should be
dropped from the specification.