Bug#748996: Provides: libgd-gd2-perl, which is not (only) a virtual package

[Jonas Smedegaard]

reassign 748996 libgd-securityimage-perl
retitle 748996 libgd-securityimage-perl: should switch to use libgd-perl
thanks

Quoting Michael Tautschnig (2014-05-22 23:51:13)
> Package: libgd-perl
> Version: 2.50-1
> Severity: serious
> Justification: Makes unrelated package FTBFS
> 
> The following fails, which is the reason why
> libcgi-application-plugin-captcha-perl FTBFS:
> 
> # apt-get -f -s install libdata-random-perl libgd-securityimage-perl
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
> requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
> distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
> or been moved out of Incoming.
> The following information may help to resolve the situation:
> 
> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
>  libdata-random-perl : Depends: libgd-perl but it is not going to be installed
> E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
> 
> This is caused by the fact that libgd-securityimage-perl depends on
> libgd-gd2-perl, which libgd-perl claims to provide and replace (in the version
> that's currently in the archive) -- while it does exist as a separate package.
> 
> I suppose libgd-gd2-perl is to be removed?

Correct: libgd-gd2-perl should be removed when all its reverse 
dependencies has properly transitioned to instead use libgd-perl.

This (the severe failure) seems tied to the no longer correct linkage.  
Reassigning accordingly.


 - Jonas

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