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

[Simon McVittie]

Control: severity -1 normal
Control: reassign -1 src:libsdl-perl,src:sdl12-compat
Control: found -1 libsdl-perl/2.548-6
Control: found -1 sdl12-compat/1.2.74-1

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

I've now done this in sdl12-compat (to be uploaded shortly).

I'm downgrading this to non-RC rather than closing it fully, as a 
reminder that upstream is still looking into whose bug this is. If it 
isn't resolved upstream somehow, we'll likely need some coordination 
around this when switching from "classic" SDL 2 to sdl2-compat (at which 
point we'd presumably want to reinstate the upstream change that was 
causing this test failure, which does resolve a genuine bug, and 
accompany that by giving sdl12-compat a versioned B-D on libsdl2-dev to 
avoid the failing scenario where you have the new sdl12-compat with the 
old SDL).

Using the FTBFS bug report for this purpose rather than the one I opened 
for the autopkgtest regression, because that has the necessary tags to 
show up on lists of FTBFS bugs and avoid duplicates being opened if 
something goes wrong.

     smcv