[Debian GNUstep maintainers] Bug#939155: libgnustep-gui0.27: Uses GifQuantizeBuffer - binary stops working with newer giflib

[Yavor Doganov]

On Sun, Sep 01, 2019 at 06:45:52PM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote:
> Source: libgnustep-gui0.27
> Version: 0.27.0-5
> Severity: important

> this package uses GifQuantizeBuffer() from giflib. The symbol has been
> dropped in giflib 5.2 (libgif-dev/libgif7 5.2.1 is available in
> experimental) and therefore the package 
> a) stops working when the gif library package is upgraded and
> b) if built against libgif-dev >= 5.2 then GIF support is
> disabled/limited.

I simply forgot about this old bug.  I don't think it's still relevant:

$ objdump -T /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgif.so.7.2.0 | grep GifQuantizeBuffer
00000000000069d0 g    DF .text	0000000000000707  Base        GifQuantizeBuffer

Right?