[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#712088: libg20-perl: symbol lookup error

[Niko Tyni]

severity 712088 grave
tag 712088 patch
thanks

On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 07:09:33AM +1000, Kevin Ryde wrote:
> Package: libg20-perl
> Version: 0.72-2.1+b1
> Severity: normal
> 
> Running the G2 pod synopsis code
> 
>     use G2;
>     $dev2 = newGD  G2::Device("test.png",600,200);
> 
> gives an error
> 
>     perl: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/perl5/auto/G2/G2.so: undefined symbol: g2_open_gd
> 
> 
> "ldd /usr/lib/perl5/auto/G2/G2.so" claims G2.so doesn't have a "NEEDED"
> record for /usr/lib/libg2.so.  I wonder if it should or if that's
> supposed to come in another way.

It definitely should, but it's not there because there's a typo in
debian/rules. 

I'm raising the severity as libg20-perl is apparently unusable.

Proposed patch attached.
-- 
Niko Tyni   ntyni at debian.org
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