[Pkg-erlang-devel] Bug#1038071: Bug#1038071: esdl: Is a language binding for an obsolete version of SDL

[Sergei Golovan]

Hi Simon,

On Thu, Jun 22, 2023 at 2:15 PM Simon McVittie <smcv at debian.org> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 15 Jun 2023 at 13:32:47 +0100, Simon McVittie wrote:
> > esdl is a language binding for SDL 1.2, which is unmaintained upstream
> > (superseded by SDL 2).
> >
> > Is esdl still useful, or should it be removed from Debian? It seems there
> > is only one package that depends on it: wings3d.
>
> wings3d just dropped its dependency on esdl (apparently it wasn't actually
> needed in that package), so nothing depends on esdl any more. Maybe esdl
> could/should be removed from unstable now?

As far as I can see, esdl is just a thin wrapper of SDL 1.2 for
Erlang. It can't be
easily ported to SDL 2, so probably dropping esdl from Debian is the right thing
to do.

Cheers!
-- 
Sergei Golovan