Hi all, This is just a note for anyone who's looking for a project. I was just trying to compile some software, and it bombed out because I didn't have the right ClanLib version installed. I looked into the matter a little, and found a nearly two-year-old bug (#188449) asking for the library to be updated to the latest version. For people not familiar with it, ClanLib is a moderately popular high-level game programming library used by a number of different games. It has had a tendency to break API compatibility in the past, and it appears that the latest release is binary and source incompatible, so a lot of recent software is not compilable on Debian at all. Because the incompatibility is two-way, anyone who packages this will have to make allowances for installing both versions at once. Unofficial packages are available (see the bug), but will have to be reviewed for policy compliance and so on. And no, of course I don't have time to take care of this myself, or I'd have done it instead of posting a message here. It would be great if someone could get this into sarge, though, or people will be getting frustrating compile errors on Debian systems (barring a sudden change in how we release) for years and years to come. Daniel -- /------------------- Daniel Burrows <dburrows@debian.org> ------------------\ | "Next, consider a circle passing through infinity; that | | is, a straight line.." | \--- Be like the kid in the movie! Play chess! -- http://www.uschess.org --/
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