Bug#396459: libsdl1.2-dev: Dropping *-dev dependencies breaks package builds too close to release

Daniel Schepler schepler at math.unipd.it
Tue Oct 31 22:12:17 CET 2006


Package: libsdl1.2-dev
Version: 1.2.11-6
Severity: serious
Tags: sid

After the recent upload of libsdl1.2-dev downgrading the *-dev dependencies to 
recommends, lots of packages (for example mednafen, missing a libgl-dev 
dependency) have started failing to build from source because they don't 
properly declare those dependencies themselves introduced by their own 
source.  While this is unquestionably a bug in the other packages, the change 
breaks too many packages close to release time, so in my opinion the new 
version of libsdl1.2-dev should not make it into etch.

(Sorry debian-release for not doing X-Debbugs-CC, but kmail still doesn't 
support setting custom headers afaict...)
-- 
Daniel Schepler




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