Bug#396459: libsdl1.2-dev: Dropping *-dev dependencies breaks package builds too close to release
On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 05:49:41AM +0100, Daniel Schepler wrote: On Wednesday 01 November 2006 00:17 am, Steve Langasek wrote: 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. So far, out of about 50 packages I've tried rebuilding with libsdl* and sdl* rebuilt, I've found 8 failures. Assuming the proportion continues for the rest, with approximately 200 SDL-using packages that I counted, that makes about 30 new RC bugs. Some of the most common failures: * [2] SDL_syswm.h needs the X headers. I'm not sure whether this should be fixed in libsdl1.2-dev or not; if it is, that could take care of about 1/3 to 1/2 of the failures. Seems like a clear case of a bug in libsdl1.2-dev to me, that should be fixed by re-adding that particular dependency. * [4] Packages using GL without proper Build-Depends. What percentage of the build failures are caused by this? Those are still bugs in the packages using GL in this way (and the bugs should be reported and fixed), but if the number of affected packages is large enough, it may be worth having libsdl1.2-dev re-add this dep as well for the sake of expediency. As a side note: audacious failed because pbuilder doesn't understand libasound2-dev [linux-any]. Do the buildd's understand it? No, they do not. Thanks, -- 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]
Bug#396459: libsdl1.2-dev: Dropping *-dev dependencies breaks package builds too close to release
On Wed, Nov 01, 2006, Steve Langasek wrote: * [2] SDL_syswm.h needs the X headers. I'm not sure whether this should be fixed in libsdl1.2-dev or not; if it is, that could take care of about 1/3 to 1/2 of the failures. Seems like a clear case of a bug in libsdl1.2-dev to me, that should be fixed by re-adding that particular dependency. * [4] Packages using GL without proper Build-Depends. What percentage of the build failures are caused by this? Those are still bugs in the packages using GL in this way (and the bugs should be reported and fixed), but if the number of affected packages is large enough, it may be worth having libsdl1.2-dev re-add this dep as well for the sake of expediency. Both the missing X and GL dependencies were bugs in libsdl1.2-dev that are now fixed in 1.2.11-7. -- Sam. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#396459: libsdl1.2-dev: Dropping *-dev dependencies breaks package builds too close to release
On Wednesday 01 November 2006 11:05 am, Sam Hocevar wrote: Both the missing X and GL dependencies were bugs in libsdl1.2-dev that are now fixed in 1.2.11-7. That should fix at least 90% of the build failures, and the remaining corner cases (e.g. not Build-Depending on libasound2-dev, as in 1 or 2 of the failures I found since last writing) should be manageable. -- Daniel Schepler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#396459: libsdl1.2-dev: Dropping *-dev dependencies breaks package builds too close to release
Package: libsdl1.2-dev Version: 1.2.11-6 Severity: serious Tags: sid 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. (Sorry debian-release for not doing X-Debbugs-CC, but kmail still doesn't support setting custom headers afaict...) -- Daniel Schepler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#396459: libsdl1.2-dev: Dropping *-dev dependencies breaks package builds too close to release
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]
Bug#396459: libsdl1.2-dev: Dropping *-dev dependencies breaks package builds too close to release
On Wednesday 01 November 2006 00:17 am, Steve Langasek wrote: 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. So far, out of about 50 packages I've tried rebuilding with libsdl* and sdl* rebuilt, I've found 8 failures. Assuming the proportion continues for the rest, with approximately 200 SDL-using packages that I counted, that makes about 30 new RC bugs. Some of the most common failures: * [2] SDL_syswm.h needs the X headers. I'm not sure whether this should be fixed in libsdl1.2-dev or not; if it is, that could take care of about 1/3 to 1/2 of the failures. * [4] Packages using GL without proper Build-Depends. As a side note: audacious failed because pbuilder doesn't understand libasound2-dev [linux-any]. Do the buildd's understand it? -- Daniel Schepler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
