Control: severity -1 serious
On Sat, 20 Dec 2025 at 16:46:49 +0000, Simon McVittie wrote:
the autopkgtest for yuzu has
regressed [when sdl2-compat replaces "classic" SDL2:] "classic" SDL2
would automatically use the `offscreen` video driver if neither X11 nor
Wayland works, but there was an upstream change in SDL3 to make the
`offscreen` video driver only work if explicitly requested, similar to
the behaviour that the `dummy` video driver already had. The result is
that on a CI system with no X11 display or Wayland compositor, this test
fails to initialize SDL video when SDL is really sdl2-compat.
I'm raising this to serious because:
- yuzu is already not in testing
- this autopkgtest regression is the only known blocker for switching to
sdl2-compat
- I checked with SDL upstream and they consider this to be a problem
with the test, rather than a sdl2-compat regression
- a straightforward patch is available
A workaround that I have confirmed does work is to run the test with
SDL_VIDEODRIVER="offscreen" (or "dummy"), so in the short term please
consider applying the attached patch, also available as a merge request
at https://salsa.debian.org/debian/yuzu/-/merge_requests/1
Please apply that change or something similar when convenient.
smcv
