Bug#672948: Bug#672906: freedroid should build-depend on libjpeg-dev (and possibly others)

Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo manuel.montezelo at gmail.com
Mon May 14 21:58:47 UTC 2012


Hello Yann,

(Copying this e-mail to all of the related bug reports)

2012/5/14 Yann Dirson <ydirson at free.fr>:
> It would be great to have those modified libsdl packages in
> experimental, so maints can do the full check in real situation and
> forget about it :)

Thanks for your quick reply and the suggestion.  I uploaded versions
to unstable for all for you to test:

  http://packages.qa.debian.org/s/sdl-mixer1.2.html
  http://packages.qa.debian.org/s/sdl-image1.2.html

(Most of you will probably know what I'm going to say below, please
don't be offented, it's just a reminder ;-) ).

Other than checking that things compile fine with the new packages,
please make sure that you enable support as appropriate according to
the documentantion.  Relying *only* in "smoke tests", like "if it
compiles with the new packages everything is good", is often not
enough.

In many software packages, they will happily build when some libraries
are missing -- they will just disable support for that particular
image/sound/whatever format (or other kind of libraries, but I guess
than in this case is mostly about media formats).  But then things
will fail at runtime when they try to load media files, or when users
add their media formats (e.g. an avatar portrait), or in new upstream
versions or extradatasets containing formats not present before, etc.

So please, check the README/INSTALL files provided with your packages
and make sure that you enable support for all the available formats
and options, when possible.

Regards.





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