Bug#1038021: amoebax: Depends on SDL 1.2

Simon McVittie smcv at debian.org
Sun Jun 25 12:18:09 BST 2023


On Thu, 15 Jun 2023 at 12:33:41 +0100, Simon McVittie wrote:
> 1. Install libsdl1.2-compat-shim and run the program in an X11 environment,
>    such as "GNOME on Xorg" or XFCE.
>    ($XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/wayland-* should not exist)
> 2. Install libsdl1.2-compat-shim and run the program in a Wayland
>    environment such as GNOME's default mode, using Xwayland.
>    ($XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/wayland-* should exist)
> 3. Install libsdl1.2-compat-shim and run the program in a Wayland
>    environment, but this time with environment variable
>    SDL_VIDEODRIVER=wayland so that it uses the native Wayland interface
>    (this is not currently the default for SDL 2).

All seem to work fine. amoebax is one of the games that I normally use
to smoke-test sdl12-compat.

> 4. Install libsdl1.2-compat-dev and recompile the package.

It recompiles successfully on a porterbox. (I didn't test the resulting
binaries.)

    smcv



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