[Pkg-allegro-maintainers] Bug#606252: liballegro4.2-dev: liballegro 4.4.1.1 is available upstream and required to compile opensonic

[Dominique Dumont]

Package: liballegro4.2-dev
Version: 2:4.2.2-2.2+b1
Severity: normal


Hello

On debian, liballegro is outdated. This problems occurs when
I try to  compile opensonic:

    $ ./configure
    Open Surge version 0.2.0
    Using CFLAGS=' '
    
    WARNING: your Allegro version is 4.2.2. The recommended version is 4.4.1.
             Open Surge may not compile properly!.
    
    CMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:67 (MESSAGE):
      Fatal error: libloadpng not found! Please read the user manual
      (readme.html) to get help.

According to google, libloadpng is available with more recent versions
of allegro.

I know that the timing sucks because of Squeeze freeze, but would it
be possible to have a liballegro4.4-dev in Sid ?

All the best

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.36-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages liballegro4.2-dev depends on:
ii  liballegro4.2             2:4.2.2-2.2+b1 portable library for cross-platfor
ii  libc6                     2.11.2-7       Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libx11-6                  2:1.3.3-4      X11 client-side library
ii  libx11-dev                2:1.3.3-4      X11 client-side library (developme
ii  libxcursor-dev            1:1.1.11-1     X cursor management library (devel
ii  libxcursor1               1:1.1.11-1     X cursor management library
ii  libxext-dev               2:1.1.2-1      X11 miscellaneous extensions libra
ii  libxext6                  2:1.1.2-1      X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii  libxpm-dev                1:3.5.9-1      X11 pixmap library (development he
ii  libxpm4                   1:3.5.9-1      X11 pixmap library
ii  libxxf86vm-dev            1:1.1.1-1      X11 XFree86 video mode extension l
ii  libxxf86vm1               1:1.1.1-1      X11 XFree86 video mode extension l

liballegro4.2-dev recommends no packages.

liballegro4.2-dev suggests no packages.

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