On Wed, Jun 2, 2021 at 7:47 AM Dominik 'Rathann'
Mierzejewski
<dominik(a)greysector.net> wrote:
>
> On Monday, 17 May 2021 at 19:16, Neal Gompa wrote:
> > On Mon, May 17, 2021 at 1:13 PM Matthew Miller <mattdm(a)fedoraproject.org>
wrote:
> > >
> > > On Mon, May 17, 2021 at 10:19:05AM -0400, Ben Cotton wrote:
> > > > ** Package [
https://github.com/libsdl-org/sdl12-compat
> > > > libsdl12-compat]
([
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1960960
> > > > RH#1960960])
> > >
> > > I do have one serious question. What happens to:
> > >
> > > SDL_Pango
> > > SDL_gfx
> > > SDL_image
> > > SDL_mixer
> > > SDL_mng
> > > SDL_net
> > > SDL_sound
> > > SDL_ttf
> > >
> > > ?
> > >
> >
> > Those should all work on top of sdl12-compat, according to upstream.
>
> SDL_sound has added SDL2 support[1] and then removed support for 1.2[2]
> in the development (default) branch while the stable-1.0 branch supports
> both 1.2 and 2.0[3]. They also haven't made any releases in 13 years.
>
> The latest development version of one of my packages, ags, is switching
> to SDL2 (from Allegro) and requires a corresponding SDL2-based
> SDL_sound. What are the plans for SDL_sound? At least two distributions
> have packaged Mercurial snapshots of SDL_sound build against SDL2[4][5].
I can ask upstream about making a 2.0 release that we can package as SDL2_sound.
It looks like the Debian maintainers already did and Ryan indicated he
would make one back in April:
There should be a science of discontent. People need hard times and
oppression to develop psychic muscles.
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