Dear Maintainer,

libgd-dev package declares a dependency on base-files, and it does it in
a way that looks unintentional too, due to the alternatives:

libavif-dev | base-files
libheif-dev | base-files

Neither libavif-dev nor libheif-dev are in any way related to
base-files. base-files is an essential package present on all debian
systems.

Please remove the unnecessary dependency on base-files. Patch attached.
Thanks.

This is not unnecessary, it is needed to help with backporting the package. Also, it is really cosmetic problem, so why did you marked this “important”?
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Ondřej Surý (He/Him)