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

[Vincent Lefevre]

Package: libgd-perl
Version: 2.72-1
Severity: important

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:

Package: lcov
Status: install ok installed
Priority: optional
Section: devel
Installed-Size: 456
Maintainer: Alastair McKinstry <mckinstry at debian.org>
Architecture: all
Version: 1.14-2
Depends: perl:any, gcc, libjson-perl, libperlio-gzip-perl
Recommends: libgd-gd2-perl

signing-party 2.11-1 also has:
Recommends: default-mta | mail-transport-agent, dialog | whiptail, libgd-gd2-noxpm-perl | libgd-gd2-perl, libpaper-utils

This prevents a clean upgrade with aptitude, which checks Recommends.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: bullseye/sid
  APT prefers unstable-debug
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 5.7.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=POSIX, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages libgd-perl depends on:
ii  libc6                       2.31-2
ii  libgd3                      2.3.0-2
ii  perl                        5.30.3-4
ii  perl-base [perlapi-5.30.3]  5.30.3-4

libgd-perl recommends no packages.

libgd-perl suggests no packages.

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