On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 10:12:17PM +0100, Daniel Schepler wrote: > 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.
As this is a case of exposing RC bugs in those packages, not causing them, I'm inclined to disagree. Do you have a sense of how many packages are actually affected by this change? I would hope that in this day and age, the final count of affected packages would be relatively small. It's known that some other lib packages depending on libsdl1.2-dev need to be rebuilt in order for the .la change to propagate upwards, but that should be a trivial case of binNMUing. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
