On August 24, 2024 3:48:59 PM UTC, Mark Weyer <m...@weyer-zuhause.de> wrote:
>Am Sat, Aug 24, 2024 at 02:57:22PM +0000 schrieb Scott Kitterman:
>> On August 24, 2024 10:59:17 AM UTC, Mark Weyer <m...@weyer-zuhause.de> wrote:
>> >I beg you to reconsider.
>> >
>> >> ocamlsdl depends on an obsolete version of SDL and has no reverse
>> >> dependencies. Please remove it from unstable.
>> >
>> >While SDL 1.2 may be obsolete, ocamlsdl itself is not: There does not seem
>> >to
>> >be a replacement available. Personally, I use libsdl-ocaml-dev in several
>> >projects. (None of which are packaged in Debian, abmittedly.)
>>
>> For use with a project that isn't packaged, what's the benefit of having this
>> one thing packaged? Not having looked into it, I assume this needs SDL 1.2
>> and if we don't have that in the archive, this isn't going to be useful,
>> right?
>
>The use of `*-dev` packages (in this case `libsdl-ocaml-dev`) ultimately is for
>the benefit of users who are developers. As for availability of SDL 1.2: I do
>not know the details, but my impression is that `libsdl1.2-compat-dev` would
>provide a replacement.
If this is going to stay in the archive, someone who is interested in the
package will have to figure out if that's correct and get an appropriate change
uploaded. Without someone doing that (or some other appropriate change), it
will have to go.
Scott K
