diff -Nru libgeotiff-dfsg-1.3.0+dfsg/debian/changelog libgeotiff-dfsg-1.3.0+dfsg/debian/changelog
--- libgeotiff-dfsg-1.3.0+dfsg/debian/changelog	2012-03-12 13:19:55.000000000 +0000
+++ libgeotiff-dfsg-1.3.0+dfsg/debian/changelog	2012-07-29 01:12:21.000000000 +0100
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+libgeotiff-dfsg (1.3.0+dfsg-3+rpi1) wheezy-staging; urgency=low
+
+  * build alternate dev package that only contains shared library and
+    doesn't depend on libtiff5-dev.
+
+ -- Peter Michael Green <plugwash@raspbian.org>  Sun, 29 Jul 2012 00:11:09 +0000
+
 libgeotiff-dfsg (1.3.0+dfsg-3) unstable; urgency=high
 
   * Fixed wrong libgeotiff-dev dependency on old libtiff-dev version. 
diff -Nru libgeotiff-dfsg-1.3.0+dfsg/debian/control libgeotiff-dfsg-1.3.0+dfsg/debian/control
--- libgeotiff-dfsg-1.3.0+dfsg/debian/control	2012-03-12 13:20:16.000000000 +0000
+++ libgeotiff-dfsg-1.3.0+dfsg/debian/control	2012-07-29 02:28:17.000000000 +0100
@@ -22,6 +22,21 @@
  This package contains stuff to be used to develop programs based 
  on the GeoTIFF library.
 
+Package: libgeotiff-alt-dev
+Section: libdevel
+Architecture: any
+Depends: libgeotiff2 (= ${binary:Version})
+Suggests: libgeotiff-epsg
+Conflicts: libgeotiff-dev
+Description: the GeoTIFF library -- development files
+ This C library supports TIFF 6.0 based interchange format for georeferenced 
+ raster imagery. The GeoTIFF standard has been developed for reading, and 
+ writing geographic meta-information tags on top of TIFF raster.
+ .
+ This is an alternative development package that does not depend on 
+ libtiff5-dev and does not provide a static library.
+
+
 Package: libgeotiff2
 Section: libs
 Architecture: any
diff -Nru libgeotiff-dfsg-1.3.0+dfsg/debian/libgeotiff-alt-dev.dirs libgeotiff-dfsg-1.3.0+dfsg/debian/libgeotiff-alt-dev.dirs
--- libgeotiff-dfsg-1.3.0+dfsg/debian/libgeotiff-alt-dev.dirs	1970-01-01 01:00:00.000000000 +0100
+++ libgeotiff-dfsg-1.3.0+dfsg/debian/libgeotiff-alt-dev.dirs	2012-07-29 01:14:57.000000000 +0100
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+usr/lib
+usr/include/geotiff
+usr/share/doc/libgeotiff-dev
diff -Nru libgeotiff-dfsg-1.3.0+dfsg/debian/libgeotiff-alt-dev.docs libgeotiff-dfsg-1.3.0+dfsg/debian/libgeotiff-alt-dev.docs
--- libgeotiff-dfsg-1.3.0+dfsg/debian/libgeotiff-alt-dev.docs	1970-01-01 01:00:00.000000000 +0100
+++ libgeotiff-dfsg-1.3.0+dfsg/debian/libgeotiff-alt-dev.docs	2012-07-29 01:15:13.000000000 +0100
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+README
+docs/index.dox
+docs/manual.txt
diff -Nru libgeotiff-dfsg-1.3.0+dfsg/debian/libgeotiff-alt-dev.install libgeotiff-dfsg-1.3.0+dfsg/debian/libgeotiff-alt-dev.install
--- libgeotiff-dfsg-1.3.0+dfsg/debian/libgeotiff-alt-dev.install	1970-01-01 01:00:00.000000000 +0100
+++ libgeotiff-dfsg-1.3.0+dfsg/debian/libgeotiff-alt-dev.install	2012-07-29 01:15:36.000000000 +0100
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+usr/include/*.h	usr/include/geotiff
+usr/include/*.inc usr/include/geotiff
+usr/lib/lib*.so