Bug#1038035: grub2: Depends on SDL 1.2

[Julian Andres Klode]

ControL tag -1 patch
Control: forwarded -1 https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2023-06/msg00106.html

On Thu, Jun 15, 2023 at 04:09:57PM +0200, Julian Andres Klode wrote:
> 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.

I just wrote a patch this morning to fix it:

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2023-06/msg00106.html

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