Source: abe Tags: trixie sid User: pkg-sdl-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org Usertags: libsdl1.2
This package has a Depends or Build-Depends on SDL version 1.2, which is unmaintained upstream. If possible, please port this package to SDL 2 and close this bug. There is a migration guide at <https://wiki.libsdl.org/SDL2/MigrationGuide>, and examples of successful ports from SDL 1.2 to SDL 2 can be found in the commit history of packages like darkplaces and ioquake3. If it is not possible to port to SDL 2, please test the package with libsdl1.2-compat-shim (preferably version 1.2.64 or later), and leave this bug open to track the package as still using SDL 1.2 APIs. libsdl1.2-compat-shim is a compatibility layer that provides the SDL 1.2 API/ABI by using SDL 2: it has already replaced the "classic" SDL 1.2 library in some other distributions like Fedora and Arch, and my intention is to do the same in Debian during the trixie release cycle. The interesting scenarios to test with libsdl1.2-compat-shim are: 1. Install libsdl1.2-compat-shim and run the program in an X11 environment, such as "GNOME on Xorg" or XFCE. ($XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/wayland-* should not exist) 2. Install libsdl1.2-compat-shim and run the program in a Wayland environment such as GNOME's default mode, using Xwayland. ($XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/wayland-* should exist) 3. Install libsdl1.2-compat-shim and run the program in a Wayland environment, but this time with environment variable SDL_VIDEODRIVER=wayland so that it uses the native Wayland interface (this is not currently the default for SDL 2). 4. Install libsdl1.2-compat-dev and recompile the package. Note that using libsdl1.2-compat and LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not sufficient if the package contains programs that are setgid games. See <https://github.com/libsdl-org/sdl12-compat/blob/main/HOW_TO_TEST_GAMES.md> for more information. If any of those fail, please report it as a bug in the libsdl1.2-compat-shim or libsdl1.2-compat-dev package as appropriate, with "affects" pointing to the program that is affected. I did some brief testing on this package as part of some upstream work on libsdl1.2-compat-shim and it seemed to work well, but I was not able to test it thoroughly. Thanks, smcv -- This bug report is part of a mass-bug-filing: <https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2023/06/msg00120.html>
