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.