On Tue, 05 Jan 2016 00:08:01 +0100 [email protected] wrote: > Source: neverball > Severity: important > User: [email protected] > Usertags: libpng16-transition > > Dear neverball maintainer, > > Currently we are preparing the transistion of libpng1.2 to libpng1.6. > The transistion bug is #650601. > > A rebuilt of all packages depending on libpng-dev and libpng12-dev > has been done. The result with buildlogs can be found here: > https://libpng.sviech.de/ > > neverball FTBFS during this rebuild. The buildlog is available at > https://libpng.sviech.de/neverball.build
I think I have found the reason why Neverball fails to build from source with libpng16. Apparently libpng-config was moved into a separate package libpng16-devtools but libpng16-dev neither depends or recommends this new package. However Neverball requires this tool for getting information about installed png libraries, especially linking information. I am not sure why this change has been made and I don't think it is very useful. In my opinion libpng16-dev should either depend on libpng16-devtools or the binaries should be moved into libpng16-dev again. Just for the record: libsdl2-dev also includes sdl2-config which I think is correct. Regards, Markus
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