On Sat, 24 Jan 2026 16:24:37 +0000, Simon McVittie wrote:
The new version of libgd-perl in unstable dropped some very old Provides on libgd-gd2-perl and libgd-gd2-noxpm-perl, which seem to be names that were used before 2013. It seems that this was previously attempted in 2020. Unfortunately, the situation doesn't seem to have changed since #966498 in 2020, and several packages still have Build-Depends, Depends or Recommends on those obsolete names, resulting in the new libgd-perl being unable to migrate to testing.
Oh :/I thought I had checked for rdeps before removing the Provides but apparently I made a mistake. Thanks for catching it!
1. putting back the Provides, again;
Done.
2. doing a usertagged mini mass-bug-filing against packages with a dependency relationship with the obsolete names, asking for them to replace the dependency with libgd-perl (as they should ideally have done in 2013)
Done (except for the ones maintained in the Debian Perl Group, which I just fixed :))
Affected packages are at least:
Thanks for the list! https://udd.debian.org/cgi-bin/bts-usertags.cgi?user=debian-perl%40lists.debian.org&tag=libgd-gd2-perl-removal Cheers, gregor -- .''`. https://info.comodo.priv.at -- Debian Developer https://www.debian.org : :' : OpenPGP fingerprint D1E1 316E 93A7 60A8 104D 85FA BB3A 6801 8649 AA06 `. `' Member VIBE!AT & SPI Inc. -- Supporter Free Software Foundation Europe`-
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