On Fri, Jan 27, 2006 at 01:14:14AM +0000, Regis Boudin wrote: > Package: kdepim > Version: 3.5.0-5 > Severity: grave > Trying to build a snapshot of tellico, it FTBS because of a > missing /usr/lib/libXft.la file. I tried to rebuild the latest version > of tellico with pbuilder, which also failed with the same error. > All the .la files from the kdepim dev packages > reference /usr/lib/libXft.la, if the build was done with libxft-dev << > 2.1.8. However, the file was removed last week with xft 2.1.8.2-1, > making the packages linking against any of the kdepim libs FTBFS, hence > the grave severity. > i386 if affected, but some arches are not, such as i64. > I tried rebuilding kdepim and installing the generated packages, and I > could successfully build tellico. > > I am not sure if the solution is to rebuild kdepim with the new xft, or > include libXft.la back, so I CC the xft maintainer, but something needs > to be done. Given that xft also supports pkg-config, AFAICT there's no specific reason that libxft-dev should need to include libXft.la anymore. The important thing is to know whether or not it's coming back, or whether we should requeue kdepim for rebuilding. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. vorlon@debian.org http://www.debian.org/
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