Bug#809070: Fwd: libsdl1.2 unicode bug causing random lockups (sdl bug #2325)

[Ozkan Sezer]

On 12/27/15, Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <manuel.montezelo at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Ozkan,
>

Hi,

> 2015-12-26 22:46 To Debian Bug Tracking System:
>>Package: libsdl1.2
>>Version: 1.2.15-12
>>Forwarded: https://bugzilla.libsdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2325
>>Control: submitter -1 sezeroz at gmail.com
>>
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> I performed the necessary incantations now, I suppose that you have
> received notifications about it, but if not, here it is:
>
>   https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=809070
>
> You can add information to the report simply by sending e-mail to:
>
>   809070 at bugs.debian.org
>

Thanks,

>>SDL upstream already has fixed the bug, so it would be nice to see it
>>fixed in the debian/ubuntu/etc realm.
>
> I am not sure if they plan to release anything in the 1.2 branch, they
> declared it obsolete years ago when they released v2 and they haven't
> released in almost four years by now, the latest one was:
>
>   2012-01-21    release-1.2.15

Yes, but there are a lot of SDL-1.2 apps/games around too,

> Any plans for porting Hexen2 to SDLv2, by the way?
>

Yes in the long run, but not soon at all, so hexen2 will stay
with SDL-1.2 for some time.

Regards.

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O.S.