Help! fceu FTBFS on many archs

[joe@nahmias.net (Joe Nahmias)]

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Hello list,

I have just had a new package sponsored (Thanks Sam!) that declares a
build-dep on svgalibg1-dev.  This causes the buildd to fail on many
archs (eg. sparc, s390, mips, etc...) because apt cannot satisfy the
dependancy.

I did some research on other packages that use svgalib, and have seen
two possible solutions:

	1) Change the build-dep to 'svgalibg1-dev [i386]', and make the
	svga binary package 'Architecture: i386'. (eg. gnuboy)
	2) Change the build-dep to 'svgalibg1-dev | svgalib-dummyg1'.
	(eg. acidwarp)

What are the pros/cons of each of these methods?  Is there another
generally accepted solution to this problem that I haven't found?

Thanks for your input!
Joe Nahmias, DD wannabe
joe@nahmias.net

PS - Here is the relevant snippet from one of the buildd logs that
failed:

** Using build dependencies supplied by package:
Build-Depends: debhelper (>> 3.0.0), libz-dev, svgalibg1-dev, libsdl-dev
Checking for already installed source dependencies...
debhelper: missing
libz-dev: missing
svgalibg1-dev: missing
libsdl-dev: missing
Checking for source dependency conflicts...
  /usr/bin/sudo /usr/bin/apt-get --purge $CHROOT_OPTIONS -q -y install
debhelper libz-dev svgalibg1-dev libsdl-dev
Reading Package Lists...
Building Dependency Tree...
Note, selecting zlib1g-dev instead of libz-dev
Package svgalibg1-dev has no available version, but exists in the
database.
This typically means that the package was mentioned in a dependency and
never uploaded, has been obsoleted or is not available with the contents
of sources.list
However the following packages replace it:
  svgalib-dummyg1 
E: Package svgalibg1-dev has no installation candidate
apt-get failed.
Package installation failed
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