Bug#966498: libgd-perl: Dropped libgd-gd2-perl breaks a Recommends in lcov and prevents a clean upgrade

[gregor herrmann]

Control: forcemerge -1 966365
Control: severity -1 serious
Control: found -1 libgd-perl 2.72-1
Control: tag -1 + sid bullseye confirmed
Control: affects -1 + circos gbrowse ircmarkers libbio-graphics-perl libcatalyst-view-gd-perl libchado-perl libchart-strip-perl libgd-svg-perl libtemplate-plugin-gd-perl libtest-image-gd-perl lightsquid otrs2 shanty


On Wed, 29 Jul 2020 14:05:43 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote:

> libgd-perl (2.72-1) unstable; urgency=medium
> [...]
>   * Drop ancient Breakes/Replaces/Provides on libgd-gd2-{,noxpm-}perl.
> [...]
>  -- gregor herrmann <gregoa at debian.org>  Wed, 22 Jul 2020 19:58:57 +0200
> 
> libgd-gd2-perl is not ancient. It is still used by lcov at least:

Well, depends on the definition of "ancient".

The breaks/replaces/provides were added to libgd-perl in 2013
https://tracker.debian.org/media/packages/libg/libgd-perl/changelog-2.72-1 ;
libgd-gd2-perl and libgd-gd2-noxpm-perl were removed from testing at that time, and from the archive in 2014:
https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/libgd-gd2-perl
https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/libgd-gd2-noxpm-perl

But yes, there are at least 13 package still depending in the removed
real or virtual packages, according to
https://qa.debian.org/excuses.php?package=libgd-perl

And I'm sorry for missing these reverse dependencies. Obviously my
methodology was not good enough:

% reverse-depends libgd-gd2-noxpm-perl
b'<p>Package not published in specified release</p>'

% apt-cache rdepends libgd-gd2-noxpm-perl
<libgd-gd2-noxpm-perl>


Anyway, I'll add the Breaks/Replaces/Provides back and file bugs
against the reverse dependencies.
 

Cheers,
gregor

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