Bug#973532: retroarch: Issues due to old version

[jim_p]

Package: retroarch
Severity: normal
Tags: upstream

Please consider this a followup of #946933.

First and foremost, it is really sad to see that retroarch and its related
packages have not been updated since 2018. And even those were updated after a
bug report I had opened in 2017!

Second, retroarch-assets is stuck at some ancient version (1.3.6 in
testing/unstable and 1.4.1 in experimental). Although retroarch still works
with them, they cause issues in the app's ui (missing icons etc).

Third, due to the old version of the app, cores can not be downloaded anymore,
so the user is stuck with the ones provided by the libretro-* packages.

And fourth, those libretro-* packages from the repo are 4+ years old now, so
they sometimes do not work as they should.

Long story short, retroarch and the libretro stuff need to be removed from the
repo altogether and eerything to be built again from scratch. I know it is a
tough task, so if there is no maintainer to take the responsibility, please
remove them.



-- System Information:
Debian Release: bullseye/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 5.9.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU threads)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages retroarch depends on:
ii  fonts-dejavu-core                 2.37-2
ii  libasound2                        1.2.3.2-1
ii  libavcodec58                      10:4.3.1-dmo3
ii  libavformat58                     10:4.3.1-dmo3
ii  libavutil56                       10:4.3.1-dmo3
ii  libc6                             2.31-4
ii  libdrm2                           2.4.102-1
ii  libegl1                           1.3.2-1
ii  libfreetype6                      2.10.2+dfsg-4
ii  libgbm1                           20.1.9-1
ii  libgcc-s1                         10.2.0-15
ii  libgl1                            1.3.2-1
ii  libjack-jackd2-0 [libjack-0.125]  1.9.16~dfsg-1
ii  libminiupnpc17                    2.1-1+b2
ii  libopenal1                        1:1.19.1-2
ii  libpulse0                         13.0-5
ii  libqt5core5a                      5.14.2+dfsg-6
ii  libqt5gui5                        5.14.2+dfsg-6
ii  libqt5widgets5                    5.14.2+dfsg-6
pn  libretro-core-info                <none>
ii  libsdl2-2.0-0                     2.0.12+dfsg1-4
ii  libstdc++6                        10.2.0-15
ii  libswresample3                    10:4.3.1-dmo3
ii  libswscale5                       10:4.3.1-dmo3
ii  libudev1                          246.6-2
ii  libusb-1.0-0                      2:1.0.23-2
ii  libv4l-0                          1.20.0-1.1
ii  libwayland-client0                1.18.0-2~exp1.1
ii  libwayland-cursor0                1.18.0-2~exp1.1
ii  libwayland-egl1                   1.18.0-2~exp1.1
ii  libx11-6                          2:1.6.12-1
ii  libxext6                          2:1.3.3-1+b2
ii  libxinerama1                      2:1.1.4-2
ii  libxkbcommon0                     0.10.0-1
ii  libxv1                            2:1.0.11-1
ii  libxxf86vm1                       1:1.1.4-1+b2
pn  retroarch-assets                  <none>
ii  zlib1g                            1:1.2.11.dfsg-2

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