On Sat, Apr 02, 2005 at 12:17:27AM +0200, Reine Johansson wrote:

> > > Please use the bundled version of GD. As it is now, It's not
> > > possible to use the function imagerotate() that is only available in
> > > the bundled version.

> > This isn't going to happen.  It is a burden on the security team to
> > ship bundled copies of a library in a package; if these features of
> > the bundled GD library are important, they should be made available in
> > the upstream version.

> But why not take the bundled GD and create a new package
> (php4-bundled-gd).

Because that would still mean carrying around two copies of the same
library, which is still a burden on the security team.  If you think Debian
needs to be shipping a different libgd version, please talk to the libgd2
maintainer.

-- 
Steve Langasek
postmodern programmer

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