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On Sat, 08 Apr 2006 19:32:40 +0900 Junichi Uekawa wrote:

> > > Since the libgdchart-gd2 maintainer hasn't responded to your
> > > request for more information, let me fill in my best guesses.  I
> > > think there used to be a package literally called "libgd2-dev",
> > > which has since been dropped from the archive; if true, this
> > > could explain how the package was able to build before.  It
> > > appears libgdchart-gd2 replaced the libgd2-dev output, whatever
> > > it was, with "libgd2-noxpm-dev | libgd2-xpm-dev" in both -dev
> > > packages, so that's probably a reasonable dependency string to
> > > use.
> > 
> > Thanks, Daniel, for clarifying this.
> > 
> > And sorry for being so unresponsive. I have been busy with real
> > life, and with other issues regarding yaird and linux-26.
> > 
> > 
> > I agree with Daniel that binary dependency resolving to "libgd2-dev"
> > should be adjusted to use "libgd2-noxpm-dev | libgd2-xpm-dev"
> > instead.
> 
> Sorry for a slow response, I just noticed. 
> Thanks for the feedback.
> 
> To me, it might just be easier if libgd2-noxpm-dev, libgd2-xpm-dev
> had both Provides: and Conflicts: against libgd2-dev.
> There is only Conflicts:; is there any reason there is no Provides?

I had a reason once, but have since forgotten it, so it was probably
bogus.

Thanks for the suggestion. I'll add that!


 - Jonas


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