media-libs/gd (/usr/lib/libgd.la) Reproducible: Always
no idea why this is a "problem"
libgd.la ends up with dependency_libs of -lpng14 which will break when libpng-1.5.x gets dropped to ~arch eventually. File: /usr/lib/libgd.la:dependency_libs=' -L/usr/lib64 -ljpeg -lfontconfig -lexpat -lfreetype -lpng14 -lz -lm' revdep-rebuild is clueless of ordering the packages in right order for this, and lafilefixer is useless as well. we don't want to end up in same situation as with libpng-1.2 to libpng-1.4 where all those "semi-invalid" bugs reports came in. remove the .la file from the package if it's not required, or empty the dependency_libs to '' in src_install() if it is required for loading plugins (libltdl) and the usual USE=static-libs if required i'll fix it if you won't, feel free to reassign to me
+ 11 Apr 2011; Samuli Suominen <ssuominen@gentoo.org> gd-2.0.35-r2.ebuild: + Remove libtool and static archive if USE="static-libs" is not set wrt #362959 + by Stéphane Pagnon.
Kept the libgd.la for USE=static-libs because gd has no pkg-config file, just in case. So this is only semi-solved, people setting USE=static-libs will still get the migration problems.
the package still needs to be re-emerged on libpng upgrade like any other revdep rebuild case. the .la doesnt really matter.
(In reply to comment #5) > the package still needs to be re-emerged on libpng upgrade like any other > revdep rebuild case. the .la doesnt really matter. sure, media-libs/gd itself will break due to the NEEDED entry but this way _other_ packages that reference libgd.la in the .la files won't fail to build with dubious "can't find library -lpng14" message
as in, the commit was for reverse dependencies of gd, not for gd
