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--- Begin Message ---
Package: retroarch
Severity: normal
Tags: upstream
Please consider this a followup of #946933.
First and foremost, it is really sad to see that retroarch and its related
packages have not been updated since 2018. And even those were updated after a
bug report I had opened in 2017!
Second, retroarch-assets is stuck at some ancient version (1.3.6 in
testing/unstable and 1.4.1 in experimental). Although retroarch still works
with them, they cause issues in the app's ui (missing icons etc).
Third, due to the old version of the app, cores can not be downloaded anymore,
so the user is stuck with the ones provided by the libretro-* packages.
And fourth, those libretro-* packages from the repo are 4+ years old now, so
they sometimes do not work as they should.
Long story short, retroarch and the libretro stuff need to be removed from the
repo altogether and eerything to be built again from scratch. I know it is a
tough task, so if there is no maintainer to take the responsibility, please
remove them.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: bullseye/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 5.9.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU threads)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE,
TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages retroarch depends on:
ii fonts-dejavu-core 2.37-2
ii libasound2 1.2.3.2-1
ii libavcodec58 10:4.3.1-dmo3
ii libavformat58 10:4.3.1-dmo3
ii libavutil56 10:4.3.1-dmo3
ii libc6 2.31-4
ii libdrm2 2.4.102-1
ii libegl1 1.3.2-1
ii libfreetype6 2.10.2+dfsg-4
ii libgbm1 20.1.9-1
ii libgcc-s1 10.2.0-15
ii libgl1 1.3.2-1
ii libjack-jackd2-0 [libjack-0.125] 1.9.16~dfsg-1
ii libminiupnpc17 2.1-1+b2
ii libopenal1 1:1.19.1-2
ii libpulse0 13.0-5
ii libqt5core5a 5.14.2+dfsg-6
ii libqt5gui5 5.14.2+dfsg-6
ii libqt5widgets5 5.14.2+dfsg-6
pn libretro-core-info <none>
ii libsdl2-2.0-0 2.0.12+dfsg1-4
ii libstdc++6 10.2.0-15
ii libswresample3 10:4.3.1-dmo3
ii libswscale5 10:4.3.1-dmo3
ii libudev1 246.6-2
ii libusb-1.0-0 2:1.0.23-2
ii libv4l-0 1.20.0-1.1
ii libwayland-client0 1.18.0-2~exp1.1
ii libwayland-cursor0 1.18.0-2~exp1.1
ii libwayland-egl1 1.18.0-2~exp1.1
ii libx11-6 2:1.6.12-1
ii libxext6 2:1.3.3-1+b2
ii libxinerama1 2:1.1.4-2
ii libxkbcommon0 0.10.0-1
ii libxv1 2:1.0.11-1
ii libxxf86vm1 1:1.1.4-1+b2
pn retroarch-assets <none>
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.11.dfsg-2
retroarch recommends no packages.
retroarch suggests no packages.
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--- Begin Message ---
Version: 1.13.0+dfsg-1
I've spent some time over the past few weeks trying to clean up the
retroarch packages; we're now in a state where the
retroarch/libretro-core-info are both at 1.14.0, which matches upstream.
retroarch-assets no longer does releases it seems, but we've got a git
snapshot that is fairly recent (though does drop a bunch of bits that
don't have source or have a license that isn't DFSG compatible).
I've also done some work on updating some of the libretro cores; there
are more that need some love and I'll continue to try to find time to
look at those (though SNES/Megadrive are really where my own interests
lie).
J.
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