Debian Bug report logs - #188456
RM: libgd-gif -- superseded by libgd v2, no reverse deps

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Cc: Gergely Madarasz <gorgo@sztaki.hu>

Subject: O: libgd-gif -- GD Graphics Library with gif support (development version)

Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 23:49:47 +1000

Package: wnpp
Severity: normal

The current maintainer of libgd-gif, Gergely Madarasz
<gorgo@sztaki.hu>, has orphaned this package.  If you want to be the
new maintainer, please take it -- see
http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/index.html#howto-o for detailed
instructions how to adopt a package properly.

Some information about this package:

Package: libgd-gif
Binary: libgd-gif1, libgd-gif-tools, libgd-gif1-dev
Version: 1.3-2
Priority: optional
Section: libs
Maintainer: Gergely Madarasz <gorgo@sztaki.hu>
Architecture: any
Standards-Version: 3.0.1
Directory: dists/potato/main/source/libs
Files: aaee424933dc1b6baa54570fe2a0d2eb 592 libgd-gif_1.3-2.dsc
 fcc5af15839cc9c420e1aa44f2334551 90325 libgd-gif_1.3.orig.tar.gz
 c7d64f40654c523aca732d9f33f5faba 3853 libgd-gif_1.3-2.diff.gz

Package: libgd-gif-tools
Priority: extra
Section: graphics
Installed-Size: 36
Maintainer: Gergely Madarasz <gorgo@sztaki.hu>
Architecture: i386
Source: libgd-gif
Version: 1.3-2
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.1), libgd-gif1, perl5
Filename: dists/potato/main/binary-i386/graphics/libgd-gif-tools_1.3-2.deb
Size: 11116
MD5sum: a62dabe4128852139df14ea35aed61c4
Description: GD command line tools with gif support
 Simple command line tools that use the GD graphics library.

Package: libgd-gif1
Priority: optional
Section: libs
Installed-Size: 263
Maintainer: Gergely Madarasz <gorgo@sztaki.hu>
Architecture: i386
Source: libgd-gif
Version: 1.3-2
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.1)
Filename: dists/potato/main/binary-i386/libs/libgd-gif1_1.3-2.deb
Size: 62104
MD5sum: 28ded0ee82aa28e8bb62b579fb328e55
Description: GD Graphics Library with gif support
 GD is a graphics library. It allows your code to quickly draw images
 complete with lines, arcs, text, multiple colours, cut and paste from
 other images, flood fills, and write out the result as a GIF file.
 This is particularly useful in World Wide Web applications, where GIF is
 the format used for inline images.
 .
 This is the runtime package of the library.

Package: libgd-gif1-dev
Priority: extra
Section: devel
Installed-Size: 275
Maintainer: Gergely Madarasz <gorgo@sztaki.hu>
Architecture: i386
Source: libgd-gif
Version: 1.3-2
Provides: libgd-dev
Depends: libgd-gif1, libc6-dev
Conflicts: libgd-dev
Filename: dists/potato/main/binary-i386/libs/libgd-gif1-dev_1.3-2.deb
Size: 59552
MD5sum: eae9184fd233cccd424df9d780ff6227
Description: GD Graphics Library with gif support (development version)
 GD is a graphics library. It allows your code to quickly draw images
 complete with lines, arcs, text, multiple colours, cut and paste from
 other images, flood fills, and write out the result as a GIF file.
 This is particularly useful in World Wide Web applications, where GIF is
 the format used for inline images.
 .
 This is the full development version of the library.

-- 
Martin Michlmayr
tbm@cyrius.com

Message #12 received at 188456@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com>

To: 314316@bugs.debian.org

Cc: 188456@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#314316: Please migrate to libgd version 2

Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2005 16:56:36 +0000

Hi Ben,

Do you think you'll be able to take a look at this soon?  gccchecker
is now the only package in Debian [1] which required the old libgd-gif
which has been orphaned for over 2.5 years.  libgd-gif was a fork of
libgd v1 to add GIF support; libgd 2 has GIF support again (since the
patent expired) and is supported upstream.

I'd really like to get libgd-gif removed from the archive soon so it
would be great it you could take a look at this.


[1] boot-floppies too, but they are still in the archive only for some
stupid license reasons.  It has several; broken b-ds already so this
won't stop the removal of libgd-gif.
-- 
Martin Michlmayr
http://www.cyrius.com/

Message #17 received at 188456@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>

To: Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com>

Cc: 314316@bugs.debian.org, 188456@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#314316: Please migrate to libgd version 2

Date: Thu, 03 Nov 2005 09:30:13 -0800

Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com> writes:

> Do you think you'll be able to take a look at this soon?  gccchecker
> is now the only package in Debian [1] which required the old libgd-gif
> which has been orphaned for over 2.5 years.  libgd-gif was a fork of
> libgd v1 to add GIF support; libgd 2 has GIF support again (since the
> patent expired) and is supported upstream.
>
> I'd really like to get libgd-gif removed from the archive soon so it
> would be great it you could take a look at this.

Oh.  Thanks for the reminder.  I think that, in fact, it might be
time to remove gccchecker entirely.  valgrind is an easier-to-use
replacement that works at least as well in practice.  Checker has
not seen any upstream work in a long time, and I don't think it
works with modern versions of GCC.

I will upload a fixed version or file a removal request by
sometime this weekend.

-- 
Ben Pfaff 
email: blp@cs.stanford.edu
web: http://benpfaff.org

Message #22 received at 188456@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com>

To: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>

Cc: 314316@bugs.debian.org, 188456@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#314316: Please migrate to libgd version 2

Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2005 17:32:26 +0000

* Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu> [2005-11-03 09:30]:
> not seen any upstream work in a long time, and I don't think it
> works with modern versions of GCC.
> 
> I will upload a fixed version or file a removal request by
> sometime this weekend.

Thanks.
-- 
Martin Michlmayr
http://www.cyrius.com/

Message #27 received at 188456@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>

To: Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com>

Cc: 314316@bugs.debian.org, 188456@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#314316: Please migrate to libgd version 2

Date: Fri, 04 Nov 2005 15:53:13 -0800

Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com> writes:

> * Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu> [2005-11-03 09:30]:
>> not seen any upstream work in a long time, and I don't think it
>> works with modern versions of GCC.
>> 
>> I will upload a fixed version or file a removal request by
>> sometime this weekend.
>
> Thanks.

I submitted a removal request bug report against ftp.debian.org.
It is CC'd to you, so you should see it shortly.
-- 
"I don't want to learn the constitution and the declaration of
 independence (marvelous poetry though it be) by heart, and worship the
 flag and believe that there is a god and the dollar is its prophet."
--Maarten Wiltink in the Monastery

Message #32 received at 188456@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com>

To: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>

Cc: 188456@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#314316: Please migrate to libgd version 2

Date: Sat, 5 Nov 2005 05:07:55 +0000

reassign 188456 ftp.debian.org
retitle 188456 RM: libgd-gif -- superseded by libgd v2, no reverse deps
thanks

* Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu> [2005-11-04 15:53]:
> >> I will upload a fixed version or file a removal request by
> >> sometime this weekend.
> >
> > Thanks.
> 
> I submitted a removal request bug report against ftp.debian.org.
> It is CC'd to you, so you should see it shortly.

Thanks a lot.
-- 
Martin Michlmayr
http://www.cyrius.com/

Message #41 received at 188456-close@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Debian Archive Maintenance <ftpmaster@ftp-master.debian.org>

To: 188456-close@bugs.debian.org

Cc: libgd-gif@packages.debian.org, libgd-gif@packages.qa.debian.org

Subject: Bug#188456: fixed

Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2005 06:30:39 -0800

We believe that the bug you reported is now fixed; the following
package(s) have been removed from unstable:

 libgd-gif |      1.3-5 | source
libgd-gif-tools |      1.3-5 | alpha, arm, hppa, hurd-i386, i386, ia64, m68k, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390, sparc
libgd-gif1 |      1.3-5 | alpha, arm, hppa, hurd-i386, i386, ia64, m68k, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390, sparc
libgd-gif1-dev |      1.3-5 | alpha, arm, hppa, hurd-i386, i386, ia64, m68k, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390, sparc

Note that the package(s) have simply been removed from the tag
database and may (or may not) still be in the pool; this is not a bug.
The package(s) will be physically removed automatically when no suite
references them (and in the case of source, when no binary references
it).  Please also remember that the changes have been done on the
master archive (ftp-master.debian.org) and will not propagate to any
mirrors (ftp.debian.org included) until the next cron.daily run at the
earliest.

Packages are never removed from testing by hand.  Testing tracks
unstable and will automatically remove packages which were removed
from unstable when removing them from testing causes no dependency
problems.

Bugs which have been reported against this package are not automatically
removed from the Bug Tracking System.  Please check all open bugs and
close them or re-assign them to another package if the removed package
was superseded by another one.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 188456@bugs.debian.org.

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