Bug#1123731: wesnoth-1.18: autopkgtest fails with sdl2-compat

Simon McVittie smcv at debian.org
Tue Dec 23 14:46:31 GMT 2025


Control: clone -1 -2
Control: retitle -2 wesnoth-1.18: --nogui should explicitly select offscreen or dummy driver
Control: tags -2 = upstream
Control: severity -2 wishlist

On Sat, 20 Dec 2025 at 16:32:01 +0000, Simon McVittie wrote:
>>Or perhaps wesnoth could call SDL_SetHint(SDL_HINT_VIDEODRIVER, "offscreen")
>>(or "dummy") when invoked with --nogui or equivalent?

On https://github.com/libsdl-org/sdl2-compat/issues/561, SDL upstream 
confirms that this would be a good idea. Please could a wesnoth-1.18 
maintainer forward this suggestion to wesnoth's upstream?

Thanks,
     smcv



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