On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 04:55:38PM +0100, Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo wrote: > We're planning to remove some dependencies that were introduced for > libsdl*-dev packages years ago that are actually not required, and we > found that some packages fail to build when we remove them, because > they rely on libsdl-*-dev packages pulling them. > > Please re-check the build-depends on your package. In particular, > please check if your package really depends on the same packages as > [1][2][3] do (e.g.: libdirectfb-dev, libcaca-dev, libogg-dev, > libtiff4-dev, ...); otherwise your package will FTBFS in the near > future. > > [1] http://packages.debian.org/sid/libsdl-image1.2-dev > [2] http://packages.debian.org/sid/libsdl-mixer1.2-dev > [3] http://packages.debian.org/sid/libsdl1.2-dev > > For example, your package uses JPEG: > ... > checking for SDL - version >= 1.2.3... yes > checking for SDL_Init in -lSDL... yes > checking for jpeg_start_compress in -ljpeg... no > configure: error: > -------------------------------------------------- > libjpeg needed to run Freedroid! > see http://www.ijg.org/ > > And so it should build-depend on libjpeg-dev.
It would be great to have those modified libsdl packages in experimental, so maints can do the full check in real situation and forget about it :) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org