Bug#547393: libjpeg8 transition.

[Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>]

On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 13:53:03 +0100, Julien Cristau wrote:

> On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 11:13:08 +0100, Bill Allombert wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 03:33:42PM +0100, Julien Cristau wrote:
> > > Hi Bill,
> > > 
> > > #547393 is marked as blocked by a number of other bugs.  Can you check
> > > with the maintainers of the affected packages?
> > 
> > I could, but consider that:
> > #592925 is fixed, #582417 is not really a bug and the others seems to have
> > unresponsive maintainers, it looks like a loss of time.
> 
> They'll still need to be fixed when we make the switch, since some of
> them are libraries with a non-trivial number of reverse dependencies.
> Of course one option could be to make them build-depend on
> libjpeg62-dev, but if the maintainers are unresponsive you should be
> prepared to NMU.
> 
hmm, I didn't see an answer to that.  :/

Either way we should probably get this started at this point, so please
feel free to upload at your convenience.

Thanks,
Julien