Bug#1031386: supertuxkart: Depends on newer version of glslang

[Stephen Kitt]

Control: severity wishlist

Hi Rishi,

On Thu, 16 Feb 2023 00:25:54 -0800, Rishi Cutchin <rishincutchin at gmail.com>
wrote:
>    * What led up to the situation?
> Attempted to backport package to stable. Installed build-dependencies
> with mk-build-deps --install --remove 
> 
>    * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
>      ineffective)?
> Attempted to build with fakeroot debian/rules binary.
> 
>    * What was the outcome of this action?
> Recieved error relating to glslang::EShTargetSpv_1_6, and compilation
> failed. Was able to continue compilation after backporting glslang and
> it's dependencies
> 
>    * What outcome did you expect instead?
> Build-dependency should require newer version so that mk-build-deps
> errors to force new version.

Package dependencies are supposed to make sense within a given release.
supertuxkart builds fine in unstable, so this isn’t a serious issue. When you
backport, it’s part of the backporting work to determine when the stable
dependencies aren’t sufficient, as you did; but insufficient dependencies for
a backport to stable don’t constitute a bug.

It *is* useful to have versioned dependencies where appropriate, so I’m
leaving this open, but as a wishlist bug.

Regards,

Stephen
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