Bug#837553: higan: new upstream release

[Tobias Hansen]

Hi Ghislain,

the byuu.org message board is not publicly accessible at the moment, but
here's a comment from the higan developer byuu on reddit [1] and an
older arstechnica article [2]. Some games have coprocessors that need to
be emulated and run much slower than the average game.

Given the time span that a stable release is used, one year is not that
outdated. Also consider that most of the changes in the recent versions
are code cleanups that don't change anything for the end user.

I'm not planning to work on a package for experimental at the moment,
but I wouldn't mind if someone else wants to do that.

Best,
Tobias

[1]
https://www.reddit.com/r/emulation/comments/4nfihp/higan_v099_released/d43juq9
[2]
http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2011/08/accuracy-takes-power-one-mans-3ghz-quest-to-build-a-perfect-snes-emulator/

On 10/03/2016 08:28 PM, Ghislain Vaillant wrote:
> 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 outdated or the situation changes in other ways.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 should qualify as reasonably outdated already.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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