concerning llibva backport

[Felipe Sateler]

On 5 August 2016 at 17:24, James Cowgill <jcowgill at debian.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 05/08/16 21:03, Nicholas D Steeves wrote:
>> Hi Sebastian,
>>
>> I did a fresh build of libva-1.7.1-1~bpo+1 today, and noticed that it
>> was building against mesa-10.3.2-1+deb8u1 from Jessie.  I've been
>> testing it on a Jessie+backported mesa-11.1.3-1~bpo8+1, and the
>> packages I've been testing have also been built against mesa-10.3.x.
>> Do you think it's ok to build against mesa 10.3.2, or should we bump
>> the build deps of libva to pull in mesa from jessie-backports.  I'm in
>> favour of bumping the deps asap.  Additionally, I think it would also
>> be wise to bump the intel-vaapi-driver build-depend on libdrm-dev to
>> prevent it from being built against libdrm-2.4.58-2.
>
> Why? You realize that building against a newer version of mesa/libdrm
> won't affect the dependencies on the final package?

In backports, it does. Dependencies are statisfied from stable if
possible, thus the build-depends needs to be tightened to force use of
the backported library.

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Saludos,
Felipe Sateler