freedroid should build-depend on libjpeg-dev (and possibly others)

Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo manuel.montezelo at gmail.com
Mon May 14 15:55:38 UTC 2012


Package: freedroid
Version: 1.0.2+cvs040112-2
Severity: normal

Hello,

We're planning to remove some dependencies that were introduced for
libsdl*-dev packages years ago that are actually not required, and we
found that some packages fail to build when we remove them, because
they rely on libsdl-*-dev packages pulling them.

Please re-check the build-depends on your package.  In particular,
please check if your package really depends on the same packages as
[1][2][3] do (e.g.: libdirectfb-dev, libcaca-dev, libogg-dev,
libtiff4-dev, ...); otherwise your package will FTBFS in the near
future.

[1] http://packages.debian.org/sid/libsdl-image1.2-dev
[2] http://packages.debian.org/sid/libsdl-mixer1.2-dev
[3] http://packages.debian.org/sid/libsdl1.2-dev

For example, your package uses JPEG:
...
checking for SDL - version >= 1.2.3... yes
checking for SDL_Init in -lSDL... yes
checking for jpeg_start_compress in -ljpeg... no
configure: error:
--------------------------------------------------
libjpeg needed to run Freedroid!
see http://www.ijg.org/

And so it should build-depend on libjpeg-dev.

Regards.

(If you have any question, please keep the
CC:pkg-sdl-maintainers at lists.alioth.debian.org in the loop)



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