Bug#789289: libgd-perl: Animated GIF support is broken in libgd-perl in jessie

[Martin Mueller]

Package: libgd-perl
Version: 2.53-1+b1
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

   * What led up to the situation?

     I have a CGI script that creates an animated GIF.

   * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
     ineffective)?

     Reqesting the image from the Webserver results in a line in the error log:
     2015/06/19 15:31:29 [error] 7887#0: *789776 FastCGI sent in stderr: "libgd 2.0.33 or higher required for animated GIF support at /var/www/themm.net/cgi/rad line 35" while reading response header from upstream

   * What was the outcome of this action?

     No image is delivered.

   * What outcome did you expect instead?

     I expect an animated GIF to be delivered.

It seems to be triggered by the following bug:
https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=97760

Would you mind integrating the suggested patch?

Thanks!


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.1
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-042stab092.3 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)

Versions of packages libgd-perl depends on:
ii  libc6                       2.19-18
ii  libgd3                      2.1.0-5
ii  perl                        5.20.2-3+deb8u1
ii  perl-base [perlapi-5.20.0]  5.20.2-3+deb8u1

libgd-perl recommends no packages.

libgd-perl suggests no packages.

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