[pkg-GD-devel] Bug#443654: Scheduling project-wide post-lenny discussions?

[Jonas Smedegaard]

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[posting at bugreport to make status more public]

On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 11:13:32PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote:
>Le Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 02:53:28PM +0100, Jonas Smedegaard a écrit :
>> On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 07:23:50PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote:
>> > * Brainwash the libgd maintainers to obtain the [http://bugs.debian.org/443654
>> >   removal of the "-noxpm"] packages (volunteer to do the transition:
>> >   CharlesPlessy).
>> 
>> Save your soap/acid/whatever intended for such brainwash: 
>> Dependencies of X11-related libraries have now been fixed to no 
>> longer pull in excessive amounts of irrelevant packages when linking 
>> against libxpm, and I already intend to drop the noxpm flavor. After 
>> Lenny.
>> 
>> Odd that you consider it big enough issue to discuss projectwide, but 
>> whatever...
>
>Hi,
>
>in the absence of the answer to the bug and previous messages on 
>-devel, I thought that there was a problem.
>
>Just let me know when you drop the flavor; I am still willing to help 
>for a transition if necessary.
>
>Have a nice day,

Hi Charles,

My apologies for not responding to that bugreport. I wrongly believed 
that same issue already had a wontfix bugreport with that issue 
discussed in details (don't know if those discussions are then in 
private mails or only in my head).

In the past, linking against libxpm pulled in 50+ MB of (un)related X11 
packages, and since GD primarily is used with web apps I chose to 
provide a noxpm variant to allow for a smaller disk usage on web 
servers.

But as I mention above, I recently discovered that the X11 dependency 
mess apparently have been worked out and only a few MBs are getting 
pulled in now. So I now agree that there is not enough reason for 
multiple flavors, complicating dependency handling of all GD-related 
packages.

I am not subscribed to -devel (I believe I got auto-unsubscribed due to 
massive backscatter at some point, but deliberately did not re-subscribe 
as I realized how that missing mailinglist helped spend a bit more time 
with my family)


I would appreciate help getting the transition right. And I would be 
interestd in help generally maintaining the GD libraries, if you don't 
mind using Git and CDBS.


Kind regards,

  - Jonas

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