Source: sawfish
Version: 1:1.11.90-1.1
Severity: serious
Tags: ftbfs
Justification: fails to build from source (but built successfully in the past)
To reproduce: build sawfish on a release architecture in unstable (I used
amd64).
> checking for gtk+-2.0 >= 2.24.0
> ... yes
> checking for gdk-pixbuf-xlib-2.0 >= 2.23.0
> ... no
> configure: error: cannot locate gdk-pixbuf-xlib-2.0 >= 2.24.0
This is because the deprecated gdk-pixbuf-xlib-2.0 module used to be
pulled in as an indirect dependency by GTK 2. However, GTK 2 doesn't
actually use that module, and as a result libgtk2.0-dev no longer depends
on it, causing sawfish to fail to build.
In the short term, please build-depend on either
libgdk-pixbuf-xlib-2.0-dev | libgdk-pixbuf2.0-dev
if you want backports to older Debian to be possible, or
libgdk-pixbuf-xlib-2.0-dev
if not. That's enough to close this bug. (This might also be a good
opportunity to check that all the other packages required at build time
are in the Build-Depends.)
For the longer term, the upstream maintainers of gdk-pixbuf have deprecated
the gdk-pixbuf-xlib-2.0 module[0] and do not intend to maintain it further,
so it would be better if sawfish can stop using it.
Thanks,
smcv
[0] https://gitlab.gnome.org/Archive/gdk-pixbuf-xlib
