Bug#501831: libsdl1.2debian-all: caca support not compiled in anymore

[Ivan Vucica]

Package: libsdl1.2debian-all
Version: 1.2.13-2
Severity: minor

Greetings,

apparently SDL no longer includes libcaca support. Looking at the
changelog:
  http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/libs/libsdl1.2/current/changelog.txt
I can only find references to libcaca being ADDED, and not REMOVED. I
therefore presume this is a bug and am setting severity to "minor"
instead of "wishlist". Is there a chance of libcaca being reenabled?

Previously I thought SDL had no caca support but a Google search told me
otherwise; I find aalib a bit boring after all the time I spent showing
people that "people did it", and would like to use caca, and I'm sure
I'm not alone.

My test consisted of running my project like this:
 SDL_VIDEODRIVER=caca ./yatc
according to instructions I found for running wormux. Also I tried
running qemu the same way.

Could someone take a look?
And again, is there a chance of libcaca being reenabled?

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (1000, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (101, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.25-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages libsdl1.2debian-all depends on:
ii  libaa1                       1.4p5-37+b1 ascii art library
ii  libartsc0                    1.5.9-2     aRts sound system C support librar
ii  libasound2                   1.0.16-2    ALSA library
ii  libaudio2                    1.9.1-4     Network Audio System - shared libr
ii  libaudiofile0                0.2.6-7     Open-source version of SGI's audio
ii  libc6                        2.7-13      GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libdirectfb-1.0-0            1.0.1-11    direct frame buffer graphics - sha
ii  libesd-alsa0 [libesd0]       0.2.36-3    Enlightened Sound Daemon (ALSA) - 
ii  libglib2.0-0                 2.17.6-1    The GLib library of C routines
ii  libpulse0                    0.9.10-3    PulseAudio client libraries
ii  libsvga1 [svgalibg1]         1:1.4.3-27  console SVGA display libraries
ii  libxt6                       1:1.0.5-3   X11 toolkit intrinsics library
ii  svgalibg1                    1:1.4.3-27  transitional dummy package which c

libsdl1.2debian-all recommends no packages.

libsdl1.2debian-all suggests no packages.

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