Re: Unsmooth transition libungif4g -> libgif4

[Daniel Baumann <daniel@debian.org>]

Sven Joachim wrote:
> I have another idea: let giflib build a dummy package libungif4g that
> depends on libgif4 and version the `Conflicts' and `Replaces' of libgif4 on
> libungif4g.  That way libgif4 could work around the lack of versioned
> `Provides' in dpkg, and there's no hurry to update all packages
> build-depending on libungif4-dev immediately.  Does that sound reasonable?

i wanted to avoid that by getting an immediate removal of libungif, but
as this is not going to happen in time, this is probably the only way of
avoid further messup :/

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