Re: libgd1 upgrade reverse dependencies

[Stefan Huehner <stefan@huehner.org>]

On Sat, May 27, 2006 at 05:39:05PM +0200, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
> * Stefan Huehner <stefan@huehner.org> [2006-05-27 17:13]:
> > as the description of libgd1-{xpm-noxpm} says this library version is
> > old and no longer maintained upstream.
> > 
> > What about changing all reverse dependencies to use libgd2 so that 
> > libgd1 can be removed from the archive?
> > 
> > A lot of the reverse dependencies already use literally 'libgd1 | libgd2'
> > as their dependency..
> 
> Actually, I can only find one single package, libauthen-captcha-perl,
> that lists any of the gd1 packages first (not counting boot-floppies
> which doesn't matter).  Jonas, how about removing the gd1 group of
> packages and doing a NMU to fix libauthen-captcha-perl?

Is was thinking about reporting bugs against all reverse dependencies to
remove the conditional ' | libgd1' part so that no cruft is left in the
archive after the removal of the gd1 group of packages.

This could be done independenly before removing the gd1 group.

Regards,
Stefan