Request: Please fix fltk1.1 FTBFS (blocking a much needed ia32-libs update)

[Steve Langasek]

On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 08:18:23AM +0200, Morten Kjeldgaard wrote:

> > I'm not sure how to handle this one myself so I'm asking the mailing
> > list for help: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/fltk1.1/+bug/445560

> > Someone needs to investigate the newly missing symbols which are  
> > causing
> > fltk1.1 to fail to build.  Maybe they can be just forgotten and  
> > removed
> > entirely, I'm not sure.  What's needed is a genuine volunteer.

> The fltk1.1 package builds fine under karmic if you apply the patch  
> which is issued by dpkg-gensymbols just before it fails.

Of course it does, but what's not clear is whether this is ok - it may be
that these symbols should never have been exported and nothing would ever
use them, or it may be that dropping these symbols will break the reverse
dependencies.  We don't want to risk silently breaking the revdeps so close
to release.

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