SDL2 Update to 2.0.3

[Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo]

2015-04-28 0:25 GMT+01:00 Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo
<manuel.montezelo at gmail.com>:
> Hi,
>
> 2015-04-28 0:02 GMT+01:00 Brandon Schaefer <brandon.schaefer at canonical.com>:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I sent an email a month or so ago wondering if there was a schedule/plan for
>> updating SDL2 from 2.0.2 to 2.0.3. I was wondering if there was any new
>> information.
>
> By the time that it was released, more than a year ago, I thought that
> it was pretty uninteresting, with ~95% being Windows RT-related
> changes (a new "port") and ~99% being Windows or Mac related changes,
> see below.
>
> http://hg.libsdl.org/SDL/shortlog/8627
>
> So I didn't think that it provided anything useful at all for the
> Debian package.  Is there anything of real use that we are missing?
>
> Other than that, there was the Debian freeze and it's advised to not
> upload packages to unstable unless necessary.
>
> Last week I reviewed it and there's a 2.0.4-buildsomething available
> to download from the website, and during all of these months I was
> hoping that they did a proper release with all of the continuous
> stream of bugfixes, but it seems that they never come to happen, I
> would very much prefer to use a fixed version than a random snapshot
> from the VCS.  I didn't contact upstream about it, though.
>
>
> In summary, now that Jessie is released, we can now consider doing
> this.  But if we update the version, I think that it makes more sense
> to do package a recent version than the oldish 1.3, which doesn't seem
> to bring anything new compared to 2.0.2.

Of course, in the last sentence I meant 2.0.2 vs 2.0.3 -- not 1.3.


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Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <manuel.montezelo at gmail.com>