On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 11:28:29PM +1000, Ben Stewart wrote:

> Reading through the earlier entries in this bug report, it appears that 
> a change from depending on libgd2-xpm was changed to libgd2-noxpm.
> 
> This causes problems with having php4-gd installed on the same machine, 
> as follows:
> 
> $ sudo apt-get install librrd0-dev
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> The following extra packages will be installed:
>   libgd2-noxpm libgd2-noxpm-dev
> The following packages will be REMOVED:
>   libgd2-xpm php4-gd
> The following NEW packages will be installed:
>   libgd2-noxpm libgd2-noxpm-dev librrd0-dev
> 
> Is it safe to just grab the librrd0-dev package in the meantime, and 
> force an install with only the libgd2-xpm package installed?
> 
> Will dependencies be fixed in the future?

I stil feel that splitting libgd2 this way was not the best solution, and it
continues to create more work for me and other maintainers.

I suppose this latest issue could be resolved with an alternative dependency
on libgd2-xpm-dev?

-- 
 - mdz


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