Bug#809957: neverball: FTBFS with libpng16

[Markus Koschany]

On Tue, 05 Jan 2016 00:08:01 +0100 tobi at debian.org wrote:
> Source: neverball
> Severity: important
> User: libpng at packages.debian.org
> Usertags: libpng16-transition
> 
> Dear neverball maintainer,
> 
> Currently we are preparing the transistion of libpng1.2 to libpng1.6.
> The transistion bug is #650601.
> 
> A rebuilt of all packages depending on libpng-dev and libpng12-dev
> has been done. The result with buildlogs can be found here:
> https://libpng.sviech.de/
> 
> neverball FTBFS during this rebuild. The buildlog is available at
> https://libpng.sviech.de/neverball.build

I think I have found the reason why Neverball fails to build from source
with libpng16. Apparently libpng-config was moved into a separate
package libpng16-devtools but libpng16-dev neither depends or recommends
this new package. However Neverball requires this tool for getting
information about installed png libraries, especially linking information.

I am not sure why this change has been made and I don't think it is very
useful. In my opinion libpng16-dev should either depend on
libpng16-devtools or the binaries should be moved into libpng16-dev
again. Just for the record: libsdl2-dev also includes sdl2-config which
I think is correct.

Regards,

Markus

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