Bug#1127514: libsdl-perl: FTBFS: Failed test "Palette is SDL::Palette when BitPerPixels is 8"

[gregor herrmann]

On Mon, 09 Feb 2026 18:56:29 +0000, Simon McVittie wrote:

>>This is probably a duplicate of (or related to) #1127025 where it is 
>>(AFAIK, Simon please correct me) not yet clear whether this is an 
>>sdl12-compat problem or a bug in this package.
>Yes, the failing test is the same one that's failing in #1127025. I've 
>asked SDL upstream whether this is a sdl12-compat regression or an 
>overly-specific expectation in libsdl-perl, and they are not sure yet; 
>they hope to investigate further after SDL 3.4.2 is out.

Thanks for the update.

>Merging bugs that are assigned to more than one package seems like a 
>corner of the BTS that I'm unlikely to get right on the first few 
>attempts, so I'm marking #1127025 as a blocker for this one, rather 
>than actually merging the bugs.

:)
That's exactly why I didn't even think about merging the bugs.

>A workaround is possible: we could temporarily revert the sdl12-compat 
>change, which is necessary when using sdl2-compat as default but we're 
>not doing that yet in any case. But libsdl-perl is a language binding 
>for an obsolete SDL version and only a few games depend on it, so it 
>doesn't seem a huge problem if it temporarily falls out of testing as 
>a result of this FTBFS.

I totally agree.


Cheers,
gregor

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