Hi Michael

>It's an RC bug, just not grave but serious, because the package declares

>a dependency which doesn't actually satisfy its dependencies.


indeed, but this is just a matter of a binNMU, and it affects only 
experimental, right?

>I'll revert the upload and we will have to fix that properly, by making
>gdk-pixbuf not encode the version it was built against in the .pc file.


I'm not sure I follow your "I'll revert the upload", please try to be a little 
more
verbose.
If you want to hardcode libpng12-dev as dependency, I'm sure it won't help, 
because libpng12
and libpng16 should conflict each others in some way, so hardcoding that 
dependency in experimental
will move the uninstallability to the next layer in the dependency chain.
(I'm not sure about the above, but with a real libpng-dev in experimental 
forcing libpng12-dev will be
counter productive).

Without knowing the above statement, I'll fully trust your upload and 
judgement, just one note:
in case the transition starts in the next few days, just please be prepared to 
an eventual NMU to 

set a libpng-dev dependency, because your one is a key package for many others, 
and I/we would
like to avoid having long delays/blocks in this transition.

That said, sorry if I misunderstood your mail and the target suite of the 
revert :)

cheers,

Gianfranco

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