Package: libgd2
Severity: important
Version: 2.0.33-1.1
After some talking on #debian-devel, the following came to my
attention:
libgd2{,-dev} currently Depends: libgd2-noxpm{,-dev} (>= 2.0.4-2) |
libgd2-xpm{,-dev} (>= 2.0.4-2);
This means that by default someone upgrading from woody will go from a
situation where they have xpm support in libgd2, to a situation where
they do not. This may be RC severity, but I'll leave that up to the
RM's determination.
Furthermore, providing multiple -dev versions means that the
situtation facing ntop (#291701) is quite likely, where a package that
actually requires the xpm version of libgd2 can't be built because
another package Build-Depends: upon the noxpm version. In short,
there's no point at all to have the noxpm versions, since everyone
should be Build-Depends: upon the xpm ones anyway.
Possible solutions:
1) Totally drop the noxpm packages. [The splitting of the x libraries
really makes them superfluous anyway, and they're only going to become
more useless post sarge.]
2) Only have a libgd2-noxpm package, and no -dev package. [For people
who know that they really don't need xpm support at all]
Don Armstrong
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-- Justice Roberts in 319 U.S. 624 (1943)
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