Comment 5 for bug 20880

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In , Michel Daenzer (daenzer) wrote : Re: Bug#326466: mesa: FTBFS: Missing Build-Depends on 'xutils, xlibmesa-gl-dev'

On Fri, 2005-09-16 at 10:27 -0600, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote:
>
> > In file included from glcontextmodes.c:60:
> > ../../../src/mesa/drivers/dri/common/glcontextmodes.h:39: warning: type defaults
> > to 'int' in declaration of '__GLXvisualConfig'
>
> Uhm... glxint.h is missing upstream.
>
> > Please add the missing Build-Depends on 'xutils, xlibmesa-gl-dev'
> > to debian/control.
>
> Just in case someone happens to develop an urge to fix this bug before
> I upload a fixed package, PLEASE DON'T ADD A DEPENDENCY ON
> xlibmesa-gl-dev. That's dumb, to put it mildly. Check out the svn
> repo. (if you are messing with the mesa source package you should know
> where the repo is)

The current upstream plan seems to be to put glxint.h (along with a
bunch of other GL headers) into the proto/GL module as of X.Org 7.0, in
which case build-depending on xlibmesa-gl would be the correct interim
solution. If you don't agree with that, you should take it up with
upstream.

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