On Fri, 8 Jan 2016 19:33:17 +0100, Markus Koschany <a...@debian.org> wrote: > 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.
It's probably so that libpng16-dev can be "Multi-Arch: same", which is very useful when cross-compiling: it becomes possible to install for example libpng16-dev:amd64 and libpng16-dev:armhf simultaneously, which isn't the case when libpng-config is part of the binary package. Regards, Stephen
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