Unsmooth transition libungif4g -> libgif4
Today a version of imlib11¹ built against libgif4 was uploaded to
unstable, and I noticed that it can't be installed because emacs21,
emacs22-gtk and icewm all depend on libungif4g (>= 4.1.4) which
conflicts against libgif4.
Although libgif4 provides libungif4g, this does not help much, since
dpkg does not support versioned `provides', see #24934 and friends. :-(
So it seems that all packages currently build-depending on libungif4-dev
need to be rebuilt against libgif-dev to resolve the issue; binNMUs will
not be enough, sourceful uploads are necessary. If I got it right,
the following 40 source packages build-depend on libungif-dev:
afterstep
camlimages
cheops-ng
driftnet
emacs21
emacs22
fbi
fenix
fontforge
fsviewer
gdal
gnome-libs
gnucash
gnustep-gui
imlib2
kaffe
kde4libs
ktoon
libgdiplus
libimager-perl
metapixel
mgp
ming
mplayer
mtpaint
openscenegraph
paintlib
paul
pslib
shoes
simage
spamprobe
swftools
ted
wdm
wine
wmaker
xkbsel
xplanet
pgplot5 [non-free]
Regards,
Sven
¹ http://packages.debian.org/sid/imlib11
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