Control: retitle -1 libsdl-perl: FTBFS: Failed test "Palette is SDL::Palette when
BitPerPixels is 8"
Control: block -1 by #1127025
On Mon, 09 Feb 2026 at 19:30:19 +0100, gregor herrmann wrote:
On Mon, 09 Feb 2026 18:05:06 +0000, Santiago Vila wrote:
During a rebuild of all packages in unstable, this package failed to build.
https://people.debian.org/~sanvila/build-logs/202602/libsdl-perl_2.548-6_amd64-20260209T154537.754Z
This is probably a duplicate of (or related to) #1127025 where it is
(AFAIK, Simon please correct me) not yet clear whether this is an
sdl12-compat problem or a bug in this package.
Yes, the failing test is the same one that's failing in #1127025. I've
asked SDL upstream whether this is a sdl12-compat regression or an
overly-specific expectation in libsdl-perl, and they are not sure yet;
they hope to investigate further after SDL 3.4.2 is out.
Merging bugs that are assigned to more than one package seems like a
corner of the BTS that I'm unlikely to get right on the first few
attempts, so I'm marking #1127025 as a blocker for this one, rather than
actually merging the bugs.
A workaround is possible: we could temporarily revert the sdl12-compat
change, which is necessary when using sdl2-compat as default but we're
not doing that yet in any case. But libsdl-perl is a language binding for
an obsolete SDL version and only a few games depend on it, so it doesn't
seem a huge problem if it temporarily falls out of testing as a result
of this FTBFS.
When we switch the default implementation of SDL 2 from libsdl2 to
sdl2-compat, that will also resolve this test failure, but I don't think
we're ready for that just yet (I was intending to reassess the situation
after SDL 3.4.2 becomes available).
smcv
