Bug#1034680: retroarch-assets: Missing icons (Favorites, and Netplay Rooms) for the default XMB theme, for Debian Stable (but solve in Testing, and Unstable)

[Jonathan McDowell]

On Sun, Apr 23, 2023 at 01:39:51PM +0200, David Hedlund wrote:
> On 2023-04-23 13:04, Jonathan McDowell wrote:
> > On Fri, Apr 21, 2023 at 07:37:44PM +0200, David Hedlund wrote:
> > > On 2023-04-21 19:00, Jonathan McDowell wrote:
> > > > On Fri, Apr 21, 2023 at 03:33:00PM +0200, David Hedlund wrote:
> > > > > Package: retroarch-assets
> > > > > Version: 1.3.6+git20160731+dfsg1-2
> > > > > 
> > > > > Open the attached Debian_11_Stable.png screenshot. As you can see, these
> > > > > icons are missing:
> > > > > 
> > > > ...
> > > > > This issue has been fixed in:
> > > > > 
> > > > > Debian 11 Testing (see attached screenshot)
> > > > > Package: retroarch
> > > > > Version: 1.14.0+dfsg-1
> > > > > Package: retroarch-assets
> > > > > Version: 1.7.6+git20221024+dfsg-2
> > > > Yes, that's expected. The retroarch-assets package in bullseye was
> > > > extremely dated and this has been corrected for bookworm.
> > > > 
> > > Thanks. This bug is marked as solved, why aren't these two PNG files going
> > > to be added to the stable retroarch-assets package?
> > Debian generally doesn't update packages in the stable release unless
> > there's a security issue or a serious functionality issue. While it
> > might be a minor fix here it's also primarily a cosmetic issue.
> > 
> Thanks. Personally, I think the lack of these icons in this stable package
> release make it look unstable, because it's on the main interface. Don't you
> agree?

I don't agree this is a critical enough bug to roll out to stable (bullseye),
even if we weren't so close to releasing bookworm. retroarch in bullseye
is not in great shape, but I believe I have resolved that for bookworm.

J.

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