[Debian-med-packaging] Upcoming libgd2-{xpm, noxpm}-dev -> libgd2-dev transition

[Ondřej Surý]

On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 9:54 AM, Andreas Tille <tille at debian.org> wrote:
> Hi Ondřej,
>
> thanks for your heads up about the upcoming change.
>
> On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 10:34:36PM +0200, Ondřej Surý wrote:
>> I will be uploading libgd2 >= 2.1.0~ to unstable soon, since it is
>> needed for php5 transition, which is in turn needed for apache2.4
>> transition, so please when you upload new version of your package
>> don't forget to change the Build-Depends: only to libgd2-dev.
>>
>> List of affected developers follows:
>>
>> ...
>> Andreas Tille <tille at debian.org>
>>    emboss (U)
>
> I wonder whether this is a false positive:
>
> $ apt-cache showsrc emboss | grep gd2
> Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 9), quilt, libx11-dev, x11proto-core-dev, libgdchart-gd2-xpm-dev, zlib1g-dev, libpng-dev, libexpat1-dev, libhpdf-dev, libmysqlclient-dev, libpq-dev, antiword, sharutils, autotools-dev, tcsh | csh | c-shell, dh-autoreconf, default-jdk
>
> lists libgdchart-gd2-xpm-dev instead of libgd2-xpm-dev which is a
> different source package and there is no similar change announced by its
> maintainer announced yet (even if I guess he will follow).  See below.

I have used whatdepends, so it might list 2+-tier packages.  I haven't
checked the list manually.

>> Jonas Smedegaard <dr at jones.dk>
>>    libgdchart-gd2
>
> I guess once this package will be changed we will need to follow with
> emboss.

All those {xpm,noxpm} packages will need to go, so I guess this will
be a multitiered transition. Yay! :)

But nothing should really break (crossed fingers).

Ondrej
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Ondřej Surý <ondrej at sury.org>