Bug#827666: [Fwd: Freciv in Stretch]

[Markus Koschany]

Control: retitle -1 Improvement suggestions for Freeciv

Hello Marko,

thank you for your suggestions. I think I will implement most of them
for your next Freeciv point release or the next scheduled upload before
the Stretch freeze.

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> All the clients except sdl-client can be built to use sdl2-mixer instead of sdl1.2-mixer.
> Please consider building only sdl-client using sdl1.2, and other clients with --enable-sdl-mixer=sdl2.
> That would drop the sdl1.2 dependencies from those clients, so they would not drag that old sdl version in.

That sounds reasonable.

> As you are packaging gtk2-client but not gtk3-client, consistent thing would be to use gtk2 version of the modpack installer also.
> Currently you have --enable-fcmp=gtk3.

The gtk2-client isn't strictly related to the modpack installer. I think
using the modern gtk3 version for the modpack installer instead of the
older gtk2 one is correct here.

> - Having parallel gtk2-client (our default still in 2.5) and gtk3-
> client packages would be benefit us, as that would make our gtk3-client
> testing userbase a bit larger.

We have talked about this before in #766185.
https://bugs.debian.org/766185

Debian has been providing both clients in the past but Jacob Nevins
insisted that we should remove the gtk3 client because it was too
experimental. Did this situation change in the meantime? Is the client
stable enough for being supported in Stretch?

> - 'control' seems to have some x11 related dependencies that are no
> longer relevant as you're not packaging xaw-client. Also libpng
> is not used directly by clients other than xaw-client.

OK.

> - libesd0-dev has probably been needed by sound plugin we've not
> been shipping in over a decade. SDL Mixer dependencies should be
> enough.

OK.


Regards,

Markus

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