Bug#1038035: grub2: Depends on SDL 1.2

[Julian Andres Klode]

Control: tag -1 confirmed upstream

On Thu, Jun 15, 2023 at 12:45:14PM +0100, Simon McVittie wrote:
> Source: grub2
> Tags: trixie sid
> User: pkg-sdl-maintainers at lists.alioth.debian.org
> Usertags: libsdl1.2
> 
> This package has a Depends or Build-Depends on SDL version 1.2, which
> is unmaintained upstream. This is presumably only for grub-emu.
> 
> If possible, please port this package to SDL 2 and close this bug. There
> is a migration guide at <https://wiki.libsdl.org/SDL2/MigrationGuide>,
> and examples of successful ports from SDL 1.2 to SDL 2 can be found in
> the commit history of packages like darkplaces and ioquake3.
> 
> If it is not possible to port to SDL 2, please test the package with
> libsdl1.2-compat-shim (preferably version 1.2.64 or later), and leave
> this bug open to track the package as still using SDL 1.2 APIs.
> 
> libsdl1.2-compat-shim is a compatibility layer that provides the SDL 1.2
> API/ABI by using SDL 2: it has already replaced the "classic" SDL 1.2
> library in some other distributions like Fedora and Arch, and my intention
> is to do the same in Debian during the trixie release cycle.
> 
> The interesting scenarios to test with libsdl1.2-compat-shim are:
> 
> 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).
> 4. Install libsdl1.2-compat-dev and recompile the package.

It works with the preload, so my preference right now is to rebuild with
the compat -dev package for now, and try to solve SDL 2 upstream.

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