Bug#809957: neverball: FTBFS with libpng16

[Stephen Kitt]

On Fri, 8 Jan 2016 19:33:17 +0100, Markus Koschany <apo at debian.org> wrote:
> 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.

It's probably so that libpng16-dev can be "Multi-Arch: same", which is very
useful when cross-compiling: it becomes possible to install for example
libpng16-dev:amd64 and libpng16-dev:armhf simultaneously, which isn't the
case when libpng-config is part of the binary package.

Regards,

Stephen
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