Bug#1099244: libspng: FTBFS: 49/208 ch1n3p04 FAIL

[Andrea Pappacoda]

Hi Santiago,

Package: src:libspng
Version: 0.7.4-1
During a rebuild of all packages in unstable, your package failed to
build

The issue seems to have been introduced by a new libpng1.6 (not
lib**s**png), which is used by libspng only as a build-time dependency.

Since this seem related to a breakage in libpng1.6, what do you advise
me to do? Should I reassing this bug to that package, and marking
libspng as affected by it?

Please let me know :)

Bye!

[Andrea Pappacoda]

Control: forwared -1 https://github.com/randy408/libspng/issues/276

Hi Santiago,

When a library change triggers a bunch of similar FTBFS problems in
packages having it in their build-depends, it may be the case that
there is a bug in the library, but it may also be the case that a lot
of packages need to be adapted to the new library.

Here the failure is just in the test suite, the libspng library itself
does not depend on libpng. The behaviour of the latter changed and the
test suite was expecting a particular output from it.

I would ask the library maintainer, as they are probably in the best
position to answer.

I think I'll just skip the failing tests, as this is not a regression in
the package itself. I have reported the issue upstream, though.

Thanks for bringing this to my attention! Bye :)