Fixing this bug appears to be a rather trivial change to debian/control... Apparently, the xlibmesa-dev dependency that has gone missing is now split into two packages, xlibmesa-gl-dev and xlibmesa-glu-dev. Applying the attached patch makes it build again for me.
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--- snes9x-1.43/debian/control~build-fix 2005-12-24 00:01:21.000000000 +0100 +++ snes9x-1.43/debian/control 2005-12-24 00:02:47.000000000 +0100 @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ Source: snes9x Section: non-free/games Priority: optional -Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 3.0), nasm [i386], xlibs-dev, zlib1g-dev, xlibmesa-dev, dpatch (>= 1.19) +Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 3.0), nasm [i386], xlibs-dev, zlib1g-dev, xlibmesa-gl-dev, xlibmesa-glu-dev, dpatch (>= 1.19) Maintainer: Alain Schroeder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Standards-Version: 3.6.2.1