Re: gdk-imlib-dev or gdk-imlib1-dev? Which one to use?

[Christian Marillat <marillat.christian@wanadoo.fr>]

Andrew Lau <netsnipe@debianplanet.org> writes:

> Hey everyone,

Hi,

> 	I've noticed that gdk-imlib1-dev is now in oldlibs and not
> supported anymore on some architectures after browsing my packages via
> <http://qa.debian.org>. But libgnome-dev still depends on oldlib's
> gdk-imlib1-dev instead of devel's gdk-imlib-dev. I've also noticed the
> rather long thread on the BTS:

> #159489: libgnome-dev should not depend on imlib1-dev
> <http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=159489&repeatmerged=yes>

> but I don't really have the time to make sense of it all. So what
> should we be doing? Still rely on libgnome-dev to compile GNOME 1.x
> applications? Manually rewrite Build-Depends to use gdk-imlib-dev?
> Should/Will I have to recompile all my GNOME packages if libgnome-dev
> switches over to depend on gdk-imlib-dev?

libgnome-dev depends on the right gdk-imlib1-dev package and shouldn't
depends on gdk-imlib-dev who depends on libpng3

Christian