[pkg-GD-devel] Bug#443654: Bug#443654: Bug#443654: libgd2: Please stop the xpm dichotomy.

[Jonas Smedegaard]

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On Sun, Mar 01, 2009 at 12:26:05PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote:
>On Sunday 01 March 2009, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
>> On Sun, Mar 01, 2009 at 10:34:39AM +0100, Frans Pop wrote:
>> >Shouldn't this BR be tagged wontfix?
>>
>> Actually, no: I am no longer against dropping the noxpm flavor.
>
>OK. I ran into this because inn2 needs a recommends or suggests on 
>libgd-gd2-(no)xpm-perl and was wondering if both variants should 
>provide a pseudo package (as the regular libs do) to make such a 
>dependency easier.

I decided to not hide behind a virtual or pseudo package, because 
packages depending on GD really needs to decide if XPM support is needed 
or not.


>But if the variants can be dropped, that would of course be simpler.

Sure :-)


>Please remember to inform packages with reverse deps of the change if 
>you do drop the noxpm flavor.

Yes, I am aware that this is part of the transition task. Thanks for 
reminding me anyway!


  - Jonas

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