libsdl1.2-dev: Dropping *-dev dependencies breaks package builds too close to release
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...)
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Daniel Schepler
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