Bug#986739: is it possible to package new upstream "snapshot" ?

[Aloïs Micard]

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On Sat, 10 Apr 2021 21:34:27 +0200 =?UTF-8?Q?S=C3=A9bastien_Noel?= <sebastien at twolife.be> wrote:
> Package: src:dolphin-emu
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> The current dolphin-emu packages lacks almost 5 years of upstream 
> improvements.
> I know that technically there isn't any new upstream release,
> but my feeling is that this is getting ridiculous.
> 
> The current package has lots of bugs regarding the usage of a real 
> wiimote,
> lots of games are unplayable, the GUI is antique
> (upstream switched to QT5 3 years ago), etc...
> Current documentation and user expectations are way out of line
> with the state of the official debian package stuck at the 5.0 release.
> 
> If you agree with me that an update is welcome, I'm not coming empty 
> handed,
> I did my homework, I can share my current progress,
> but I struggled on 2 points:
> * some embedded libs (FreeSurround, minizip, ...) are more up2date
>    in the tarball than the debian packaged version, so I used the bundled 
> one
> * updating the d/copyright file is a real pain
> This is clearly not "release material" but it's a start:
> https://twolife.be/debian/pool/main/d/dolphin-emu/
> 
> Thanks for reading up to this point.
> 
> Best Regards,
> Sébastien
> 
> 

Hello Sébastien,

There's currently bug #976530 [1] which is preventing dolphin-emu from reaching
testing since 2021-01-05. This bug has been fixed upstream way looong ago.

We are trying to fix it by backporting a patch, but I think more and more
that packaging a new upstream version would do the trick and greatly improve
the package.

I'm in the process of contacting upstream to make them reconsider their release
policy, I don't think we can hope for upstream to release 6.0, but maybe introducing
release candidate or anything like that based on their beta version, so that every
distro may pick up these sort of 'pre stable' version and keep up-to-date with the
features while having some sort of 'increased stability'. Currently the version of
dolphin-emu packaged across distro is totally scattered [2].

Let's see how it goes! Otherwise we can always try to package a beta version and upload
it to experimental.

Thanks for your work! It will greatly help if we decide to package new upstream version!


Cheers,

[1]: https://bugs.debian.org/976530
[2]: https://repology.org/project/dolphin-emu/versions

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Aloïs Micard <creekorful at debian.org>

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