[Pkg-monitoring-maintainers] Bug#710768: ganglia-webfrontend: please update libgd dependencies

[Colin Watson]

Package: ganglia-webfrontend
Version: 3.5.8-2
Severity: important
Tags: patch
Control: block 706828 by -1
User: ubuntu-devel at lists.ubuntu.com
Usertags: origin-ubuntu ubuntu-patch saucy

The new version of the libgd2 package in unstable produces a libgd3
binary package rather than libgd2-noxpm and libgd2-xpm (see #706828).
Please update your dependencies so that ganglia-webfrontend doesn't
block this transition.

I'm not 100% sure why you're depending directly on libgd in the first
place, anyway, and I can't find any documentation in the package that
explains this.  It's peculiar to depend on a library directly when
you're only using it indirectly.  Isn't the Recommends: php5-gd enough?
If so, please just drop the dependency rather than applying this patch,
and that way this package won't have to block on the libgd transition to
get into testing (which may be useful if it gets tangled up with Apache
2.4 as per #669786).

  * Depend on libgd3 rather than libgd2-noxpm | libgd2-xpm.

diff -Nru ganglia-web-3.5.8/debian/control ganglia-web-3.5.8/debian/control
--- ganglia-web-3.5.8/debian/control	2013-05-27 17:36:47.000000000 +0100
+++ ganglia-web-3.5.8/debian/control	2013-06-02 09:41:36.000000000 +0100
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
 
 Package: ganglia-webfrontend
 Architecture: all
-Depends: ${misc:Depends}, apache | apache-ssl | apache-perl | apache2 | httpd-cgi, php5 | php5-cgi | libapache2-mod-php5, rrdtool, debconf (>= 0.5), libgd2-noxpm | libgd2-xpm
+Depends: ${misc:Depends}, apache | apache-ssl | apache-perl | apache2 | httpd-cgi, php5 | php5-cgi | libapache2-mod-php5, rrdtool, debconf (>= 0.5), libgd3
 Recommends: gmetad, php5-gd
 Description: cluster monitoring toolkit - web front-end
  Ganglia is a scalable, real-time cluster monitoring environment

Thanks,

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]