[Pkg-erlang-devel] Bug#1038071: RM: esdl -- ROM; depends on SDL 1.2, no remaining rdeps

[Simon McVittie]

Control: reassign -1 ftp.debian.org
Control: retitle -1 RM: esdl -- ROM; depends on SDL 1.2, no remaining rdeps

On Thu, 22 Jun 2023 at 14:24:24 +0300, Sergei Golovan wrote:
> 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 (superseded by SDL 2).
> >
> > 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.

Reassigning as a ftp team bug for removal. I'll call this "request of
maintainer" since that's an ack from the only developer listed in Uploaders.

If someone wants to package a SDL 2 port of esdl (or a SDL 3 port of esdl,
when SDL 3 is declared stable), the SDL 2 API is sufficiently different
that it should probably be a separate Debian package anyway.

    smcv