Bug#672906: freedroid should build-depend on libjpeg-dev (and possibly others)

[Yann Dirson]

On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 04:55:38PM +0100, Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo wrote:
> 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.

It would be great to have those modified libsdl packages in
experimental, so maints can do the full check in real situation and
forget about it :)