Bug#1037370: (many packages): build-depends on transitional package libgdk-pixbuf2.0-dev

[Simon McVittie]

Control: severity -1 serious

On Sun, 10 Sep 2023 at 14:28:44 +0100, Simon McVittie wrote:
> On Mon, 12 Jun 2023 at 11:34:11 +0100, Simon McVittie wrote:
> > In Debian 11, libgdk-pixbuf2.0-dev was split into two packages:
> > 
> > - libgdk-pixbuf-2.0-dev contains the supported gdk-pixbuf-2.0 library
> > 
> > - libgdk-pixbuf-xlib-2.0-dev contains the deprecated, unmaintained
> >   Xlib integration layer, gdk-pixbuf-xlib-2.0
> > 
> > If [this package] only requires functionality from gdk-pixbuf-2.0.pc
> > and <gdk-pixbuf/*.h>, please update the build-dependency to
> > libgdk-pixbuf-2.0-dev.
> > 
> > If it also requires the Xlib integration gdk-pixbuf-xlib-2.0.pc and
> > <gdk-pixbuf-xlib/*.h> (unlikely), then you can also build-depend on
> > libgdk-pixbuf-xlib-2.0-dev until the package can be updated to remove
> > that requirement.
> > 
> > libgdk-pixbuf-2.0-dev was present in both Debian 11 and Debian 12, so
> > it is not necessary to have a "| libgdk-pixbuf2.0-dev" alternative
> > dependency, even for packages that are expected to be backported.
> 
> It's been almost 3 months since I opened these bugs, and we should
> remove this transitional package well before the Debian 13 freeze (it
> should ideally have already been removed in Debian 12), so I'm raising
> them to RC.

Really raising the severity, as I had intended to do with the previous
mail to these bugs.

    smcv