On 20.04.2012 03:20, Andrew Caudwell wrote:
> Changes made to the dependencies of this package seem to have had some
> downstream effects:
>
> A lot of packages assume libsdl-image1.2-dev/libsdl-image1.2 depend on
> libpng, libjpeg and/or zlib indirectly and now fail to build:

Relying on transitive depenencies when using these libraries directly
is a bug and those packages need to be fixed.

> Some examples:
>
> bomberclone : http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=669542
> supertux    : http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=669496
> logstalgia  : http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=669453
>
> The subject of some of these bugs is wrong, but the build log shows a
> failure testing for the existence of the above libraries.
>
> I could change the dependencies of my packages (logstalgia, gource),
> but it might be optimal if you could add these dependencies back.

Yes, please do that.
If this affects too many packages we could revert the dependency
changes temporarily until most of them have been fixed.

Felix




-- 
To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org
with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Reply via email to