Bug#837553: higan: new upstream release

Ghislain Vaillant ghisvail at gmail.com
Mon Oct 3 19:28:33 UTC 2016


Hi Tobias,

On 03/10/16 18:57, Tobias Hansen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> thanks for the bug report. My plan was to ship higan 098 in stretch,
> because the performance and balanced profiles were removed in version
> 099. This means that new versions use the accuracy profile and hence
> SNES emulation is slow on many computers.

Can you back this claim up with some numbers or user feedback? I have
personally used recent versions of higan (v099 for the most part) on
different laptops without noticing much performance issues.

> The situation can be re-evaluated after stretch when 098 becomes more
> outdated or the situation changes in other ways.

v098 is already 6-month old according to the upstream tags [1], this
should qualify as reasonably outdated already.

[1] https://gitlab.com/higan/higan/tags

Perhaps you could provide v101 in experimental at least, to give an
opportunity to Debian users to test the latest version of the software
and confirm the significance of the performance penalty you claimed
above.

> Best,
> Tobias

Thanks for considering my remarks.

Ghis

> On 09/12/2016 02:02 PM, Ghislain Antony Vaillant wrote:
>> Package: higan
>> Version: 098-2
>> Severity: wishlist
>>
>> Dear Maintainer,
>>
>> According to the upstream website [1], a new upstream version is available
>> (v101). Please consider packaging it.
>>
>> Also, it might be worth tracking the release tags in the upstream git
>> repository [2] from now on. The current download link in the upstream website
>> leads to a 404.
>>
>> [1] http://byuu.org/emulation/higan/
>> [2] https://gitlab.com/higan/higan/tags
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Ghis
>>
>>
>> -- System Information:
>> Debian Release: stretch/sid
>>   APT prefers testing
>>   APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (2, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
>> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
>> Foreign Architectures: i386
>>
>> Kernel: Linux 4.6.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
>> Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
>> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
>> Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
>>
>> Versions of packages higan depends on:
>> ii  libao4                    1.1.0-3
>> ii  libasound2                1.1.2-1
>> ii  libatk1.0-0               2.21.90-2
>> ii  libc6                     2.23-5
>> ii  libcairo2                 1.14.6-1+b1
>> ii  libfontconfig1            2.11.0-6.7
>> ii  libfreetype6              2.6.3-3+b1
>> ii  libgcc1                   1:6.1.1-11
>> ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0        2.34.0-1
>> ii  libgl1-mesa-glx [libgl1]  12.0.2-1
>> ii  libglib2.0-0              2.49.6-1
>> ii  libgomp1                  6.1.1-11
>> ii  libgtk2.0-0               2.24.30-4
>> ii  libgtksourceview2.0-0     2.10.5-2
>> ii  libopenal1                1:1.17.2-1
>> ii  libpango-1.0-0            1.40.2-1
>> ii  libpangocairo-1.0-0       1.40.2-1
>> ii  libpangoft2-1.0-0         1.40.2-1
>> ii  libpulse0                 9.0-3
>> ii  libsdl1.2debian           1.2.15+dfsg1-4
>> ii  libstdc++6                6.1.1-11
>> ii  libudev1                  231-4
>> ii  libx11-6                  2:1.6.3-1
>> ii  libxext6                  2:1.3.3-1
>> ii  libxv1                    2:1.0.10-1+b1
>>
>> higan recommends no packages.
>>
>> higan suggests no packages.
>>
>> -- no debconf information
>>
>



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