Package: addresses.framework
Version: 0.4.6-4.1
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package completely unusable

The addresses-for-gnustep NMU left a hard-coded dependency on
libgnustep-base1.10 in debian/control:

Package: addresses.framework
Section: libs
Architecture: any
Depends: libgnustep-base1.10, ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}
Conflicts: addresses-framework
Replaces: addresses-framework
Description: Database API backend framework for GNUstep
 This backend provides complete access to address information for
 applications. It is source-code compatible with Apple
 Corporation's AddressBook.framework.

Since libgnustep-base1.10 has been replaced by libgnustep-base1.11, this
renders the package uninstallable in unstable.

A similar dependency problem affects addressview.framework; the other
packages seem to be ok, since their dependencies come from ${shlibs:Depends}
rather than being hard-coded.  Since this dependency is apparently not based
on an ELF binary dependency, it would be nice if libgnustep-base1.11
provided some virtual package corresponding to the functionality that these
frameworks *do* use, so that this hard-coded dep doesn't have to change with
every soname change; but at the very least, addresses needs to be updated
now so that the gnustep transition can move forward.

Thanks,
-- 
Steve Langasek                   Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS
Debian Developer                   to set it on, and I can move the world.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]                                   http://www.debian.org/

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