[pkg-GD-devel] Bug#637789: libgd-xpm-dev: Please depend on libpng-dev rather than libpng12-0-dev

[Dominic Hargreaves]

reopen 637789
retitle 637789 libgd-xpm-dev: dependency problems in experimental
thanks

On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 06:33:17PM +0100, Dominic Hargreaves wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 03:15:46PM +0100, Dominic Hargreaves wrote:
> > Package: libgd-xpm-dev
> > Version: 2.0.36~rc1~dfsg-5.1
> > Severity: important
> > 
> > When I tried to build wml, I found that the build-dependencies were
> > not satisfiable. This appears to be because wml depends on
> > libpng-dev but libgd-xpm-dev depends on libpng12-0-dev, and libpng-dev
> > conflicts with libpng12-0-dev.
> > 
> > I think the correct fix for this is to depend on libpng-dev instead,
> > but I'm not completely sure, so I'm filing this at severity: important
> > rather than serious.
> 
> Hmm. Something's changed in the archive since the last rebuild which
> triggered that; I can't reproduce this now.
> 
> Sorry for the noise.

No, I've confused myself again. This only occurs in experimental,
because of the new libpng version there.

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