Bug#1034680: retroarch-assets: Missing icons (Favorites, and Netplay Rooms) for the default XMB theme, for Debian Stable (but solve in Testing, and Unstable)

[David Hedlund]

On 2023-04-23 18:44, Jonathan McDowell wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 23, 2023 at 01:39:51PM +0200, David Hedlund wrote:
>> On 2023-04-23 13:04, Jonathan McDowell wrote:
>>> On Fri, Apr 21, 2023 at 07:37:44PM +0200, David Hedlund wrote:
>>>> On 2023-04-21 19:00, Jonathan McDowell wrote:
>>>>> On Fri, Apr 21, 2023 at 03:33:00PM +0200, David Hedlund wrote:
>>>>>> Package: retroarch-assets
>>>>>> Version: 1.3.6+git20160731+dfsg1-2
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Open the attached Debian_11_Stable.png screenshot. As you can see, these
>>>>>> icons are missing:
>>>>>>
>>>>> ...
>>>>>> This issue has been fixed in:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Debian 11 Testing (see attached screenshot)
>>>>>> Package: retroarch
>>>>>> Version: 1.14.0+dfsg-1
>>>>>> Package: retroarch-assets
>>>>>> Version: 1.7.6+git20221024+dfsg-2
>>>>> Yes, that's expected. The retroarch-assets package in bullseye was
>>>>> extremely dated and this has been corrected for bookworm.
>>>>>
>>>> Thanks. This bug is marked as solved, why aren't these two PNG files going
>>>> to be added to the stable retroarch-assets package?
>>> Debian generally doesn't update packages in the stable release unless
>>> there's a security issue or a serious functionality issue. While it
>>> might be a minor fix here it's also primarily a cosmetic issue.
>>>
>> Thanks. Personally, I think the lack of these icons in this stable package
>> release make it look unstable, because it's on the main interface. Don't you
>> agree?
> I don't agree this is a critical enough bug to roll out to stable (bullseye),
> even if we weren't so close to releasing bookworm. retroarch in bullseye
> is not in great shape, but I believe I have resolved that for bookworm.
>
> J.
>
I respect your decision, J.


I filed this issue: https://github.com/libretro/RetroArch/issues/15210 
-- Should I close it or merge it to Debian?

I'll close it if the "Update Assets" entry has been removed from the 
retroarch package in Debian.