Upcoming libgd2-{xpm,noxpm}-dev -> libgd2-dev transition

[Ondřej Surý]

Hi fellow Debian Developers and Maintainers,

this is just a mail to notice you of upcoming libgd2-dev transition.

Two things has happened with GD Library:

1. I have dropped the {xpm,noxpm} dichotomy and there's only
   libgd2-dev now.  There are transitional packages which are ment
   to help with the move to libgd2-dev, so you don't have to make
   any changes right now - the binNMUs should work.

2. The upstream, which I accidentaly became part of, has released
   libgd-2.1.0-alpha1 today.  This release has merged most of the code
   from PHP fork of the library (only some custom antialiasing stuff
   was not merged).  But beware not, the API was kept backwards
   compatible.

   The ABI has remained same as well, but I have decided to bump the
   SONAME to 3, because I have implemented the GCC visibility magick,
   so only symbols, which were ment to be exposed, are exposed now.

   This would work with r-deps adhering to official API (e.g. gd.h),
   but it could accidentaly break some r-deps using internal functions,
   thus it was much safer to bump the SONAME.

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:

Adam Majer <adamm at zombino.com>
   mrtg (U)

Adrian Yanes <devel at ayanes.com>
   amule (U)

Alan Boudreault <aboudreault at mapgears.com>
   mapserver (U)

Alastair McKinstry <mckinstry at debian.org>
   grads
   magics++

Alexander Wirt <formorer at debian.org>
   icinga (U)
   nagios3 (U)

Andreas Henriksson <andreas at fatal.se>
   bandwidthd

Andreas Tille <tille at debian.org>
   emboss (U)
   g2 (U)
   raster3d (U)

Andrew Ross <andrewross at users.sourceforge.net>
   plplot

Anton Gladky <gladk at debian.org>
   gnuplot (U)

Anton Gladky <gladky.anton at gmail.com>
   gnuplot (U)

Arnaud Quette <aquette at debian.org>
   nut

Axel Beckert <abe at debian.org>
   wml (U)

Bdale Garbee <bdale at gag.com>
   geda-gaf (U)

Bradley Smith <bradsmith at debian.org>
   analog
   gnuplot (U)

Charles Plessy <plessy at debian.org>
   emboss (U)

Christoph Egger <christoph at debian.org>
   graphviz (U)

Clint Adams <clint at debian.org>
   haskell-gd (U)

Colin Tuckley <colint at debian.org>
   ploticus

Cyril Lavier <cyril.lavier at davromaniak.eu>
   nginx (U)

Daniel Pocock <daniel at pocock.com.au>
   ganglia (U)

David Claughton <dave at eclecticdave.com>
   graphviz

David Paleino <dapal at debian.org>
   libgphoto2 (U)

Debian aMule Team <pkg-amule-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org>
   amule

Debian Electronics Team <pkg-electronics-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org>
   geda-gaf
   pcb

Debian GIS Project <pkg-grass-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org>
   mapserver

Debian Haskell Group <pkg-haskell-maintainers at lists.alioth.debian.org>
   haskell-gd

Debian Med Packaging Team <debian-med-packaging at lists.alioth.debian.org>
   emboss
   g2
   raster3d

Debian Nagios Maintainer Group <pkg-nagios-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org>
   icinga
   nagios3

Debian OCaml Maintainers <debian-ocaml-maint at lists.debian.org>
   gd4o
   liquidsoap
   mldonkey

Debian OpenVAS Maintainers <openvas-distro-deb at wald.intevation.org>
   openvas-client

Debian Perl Group <pkg-perl-maintainers at lists.alioth.debian.org>
   libgd-gd2-noxpm-perl
   libgd-gd2-perl

Debian PhotoTools Maintainers <pkg-phototools-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org>
   libgphoto2
   libpuzzle

Debian PHP Maintainers <pkg-php-maint at lists.alioth.debian.org>
   php5

Debian Python Modules Team <python-modules-team at lists.alioth.debian.org>
   python-gd

Debian QA Group <packages at qa.debian.org>
   awffull
   vnstat

Debian Ruby Extras Maintainers <pkg-ruby-extras-maintainers at lists.alioth.debian.org>
   ruby-gd

Debian Science Team <debian-science-maintainers at lists.alioth.debian.org>
   gnuplot

Debian WML Packaging Team <pkg-wml-maintainers at lists.alioth.debian.org>
   wml

Debian Xiph.org Maintainers <pkg-xiph-maint at lists.alioth.debian.org>
   oggvideotools

Dmitry E. Oboukhov <unera at debian.org>
   nginx (U)

Dominic Hargreaves <dom at earth.li>
   libgd-gd2-perl (U)

Emmanuel Bouthenot <kolter at debian.org>
   libpuzzle (U)

Fabio Tranchitella <kobold at debian.org>
   nginx (U)

Felipe Augusto van de Wiel (faw) <faw at debian.org>
   webalizer (U)

Francesco Paolo Lovergine <frankie at debian.org>
   mapserver (U)

Frederic Peters <fpeters at debian.org>
   libgphoto2 (U)

Georges Khaznadar <georgesk at debian.org>
   wims

Giulio Paci <giuliopaci at gmail.com>
   shotdetect

Giuseppe Iuculano <iuculano at debian.org>
   amule (U)
   apcupsd

Gürkan Sengün <gurkan at phys.ethz.ch>
   libgphoto2 (U)

Hamish Moffatt <hamish at debian.org>
   geda-gaf (U)
   pcb (U)

Harshula Jayasuriya <harshula at debian.org>
   m17n-lib

Henning Glawe <glaweh at debian.org>
   pdl

Jack Grahams <jackgrahams at inbox.com>
   png2html

Jan Wagner <waja at cyconet.org>
   icinga (U)
   nagios3 (U)
   openvas-client (U)

Javier Fernandez-Sanguino Pen~a <jfs at debian.org>
   openvas-client (U)

John Francesco Ferlito <johnf at inodes.org>
   oggvideotools (U)

Jonas Smedegaard <dr at jones.dk>
   libgd-gd2-noxpm-perl (U)
   libgd-gd2-perl (U)
   libgdchart-gd2
   pygdchart2

Jonathan McCrohan <jmccrohan at gmail.com>
   lcd4linux (U)

Jose Parrella <bureado at debian.org>
   nginx (U)

Julien Viard de Galbert <julien at vdg.blogsite.org>
   webalizer

Julián Moreno Patiño <darkjunix at gmail.com>
   python-gd (U)

Kartik Mistry <kartik at debian.org>
   falconpl
   nginx

Klaus Reimer <kay at debian.org>
   webdruid

Laurent Bigonville <bigon at debian.org>
   nut (U)

Leo Costela <costela at debian.org>
   libpst

Lior Kaplan <kaplan at debian.org>
   php5 (U)

Luca Niccoli <lultimouomo at gmail.com>
   fswebcam

Luigi Gangitano <luigi at debian.org>
   sarg

Mark Brown <broonie at debian.org>
   cvsgraph

Mehdi Dogguy <mehdi at debian.org>
   mldonkey (U)

Michael Hanke <mih at debian.org>
   fsl (U)

Michael Lustfield <michael at lustfield.net>
   nginx (U)

Nelson A. de Oliveira <naoliv at debian.org>
   emboss (U)
   raster3d (U)

NeuroDebian Team <team at neuro.debian.net>
   fsl

Nick Rusnov <nickrusnov at debian.org>
   enscribe

Niels Thykier <niels at thykier.net>
   mscgen

Ondřej Surý <ondrej at debian.org>
   php5 (U)

Paul van Tilburg <paulvt at debian.org>
   ruby-gd (U)

Peter Clifton <pcjc2 at cam.ac.uk>
   geda-gaf (U)

Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan <rkrishnan at debian.org>
   pcb (U)

Reinhard Tartler <siretart at tauware.de>
   lcd4linux

Romain Beauxis <toots at rastageeks.org>
   gd4o (U)
   liquidsoap (U)

Ron Lee <ron at debian.org>
   oggvideotools (U)

Samuel Mimram <smimram at debian.org>
   gd4o (U)
   liquidsoap (U)
   mldonkey (U)

Samuel Thibault <sthibault at debian.org>
   bogl

Sandro Tosi <morph at debian.org>
   amule (U)
   mrtg

sean finney <seanius at debian.org>
   nagios3 (U)

Sean Finney <seanius at debian.org>
   php5 (U)

Sebastian Harl <tokkee at debian.org>
   graphviz (U)

Stefan Ritter <xeno at thehappy.de>
   apcupsd (U)

Stuart Teasdale <sdt at debian.org>
   ganglia
   kaya

Stéphane Glondu <glondu at debian.org>
   mldonkey (U)

Sylvain Le Gall <gildor at debian.org>
   mldonkey (U)

Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs at debian.org>
   php5 (U)

Tim Brown <timb at nth-dimension.org.uk>
   openvas-client (U)

Varun Hiremath <varun at debian.org>
   dvipng

Vasudev Kamath <kamathvasudev at gmail.com>
   falconpl (U)

Wesley J. Landaker <wjl at icecavern.net>
   pcb (U)

Yaroslav Halchenko <debian at onerussian.com>
   fsl (U)

أحمد المحمودي (Ahmed El-Mahmoudy) <aelmahmoudy
   geda-gaf (U)
   pcb (U)

On behalf of GD team (well basically me),
Ondřej Surý
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