Package nestopia has been unbuildable in clean chroot
since at least Jun 2021. This was brought to the maintainer's attention
via comment on 2021-06-09.
Despite replying that the missing
dependency could be added, carstene1ns did not do so. The maintainer
was again notified that the issue is still unresolved in Jun 2023. The
comment includes the relevant error message. I have attempted rebuild
moments ago to confirm the issue is still unresolved, as of mid Nov
2023.
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lGLU: No such file or directory
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
make: *** [Makefile:3097: nestopia] Error 1
Prior
to orphan request PRQ#49707, the package was also flagged. The
maintainer unflagged without taking action. The maintainer has also
written a reply to the orphan request, so is fully aware of the issue.
Despite
claims that this is an issue with fltk, maintainer has not opened an
issue report for that package. (None appears in search results at
bugs.archlinux.org.) Also, tools, such as namcap, do not identify reliance of fltk on any glu-related packages.
Even
if fltk did have an unnamed dependency on glu, Arch package guidelines
state: "Do not rely on transitive dependencies". So a prudent
maintainer, especially given the error reports, would still choose to
include glu in the dependency list.
Given that the current
maintainer has willfully kept this package in a broken state for about
2.5 years, it should be orphaned immediately so that a responsible
maintainer may take over.