Bug#706001: libsfml2 is still in new

[James Cowgill]

Hello Shirish,

On Sun, 2013-10-13 at 03:40 +0530, shirish शिरीष wrote:
> Hi all,
> For some reason libsfml2 is still in new. It seems there was a new
> version uploaded to the archive.
> 
> https://ftp-master.debian.org/new/libsfml_2.1+dfsg-2.html
> 
> from dfsg-1 to dfsg-2.
> 
> Also the uploaded date has changed to 6th Oct 2013.

Yes I made some improvements to the package and it was re-uploaded. You
can see all the changes in the git repo here:
 http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-games/libsfml.git

> Also see/saw the reason why he has set the binaries to be uploaded to
> experimental as well.
> 
> From http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=706001#15
> 
> "I've done some work on packaging SFML 2.1 (since i needed it done
> anyway). I've tried to follow the debian policies as much as possible so
> maybe this could be included in debian. I've only set the distribution
> to experimental since this would probably break the libcsfml and
> python-sfml packages which still use SFML 1.6. "
> 
> I do hope that both libsfml 1.6 and libsfml2 can exist on one machine.

The library packages (eg libsfml-audio1.6 and libsfml-audio2) can
coexist, although the 1.6 packages will eventually disappear from the
archive.
However the -dev package containing the headers will not be able to
coexist since the headers from 1.6 and 2.1 have the same filenames. This
is why an upload to unstable will break libcsfml and python-sfml if they
get rebuilt.

> Look forward to seeing your package in experimental sooner than later.

Regards,
 James