Bug#798265: Please apply upstream mouse event duplication patch

[RjY]

Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo wrote:

[...]

>So now we try to be more cautious and to avoid cherry-picking fixes
>(unless they are critical fixes), unless they were going to be released
>imminently

Upstream first. I quite understand. No problem, I can live with
continuing to patch my local copy for now.

>but we don't have this guarantee anymore.  Upstream did not
>release a simple 2.0.4 bugfix release (or anything else) in more than 19
>months, while lots and lots of changes pile up every month without any
>clear indication of what's considered to be stable and what is not.
>
>We already tried to encourage upstream in different ways to try to get
>regular bugfix releases, but we failed so far.  If you think that you
>can influence them, please go ahead :)

Heh, they wouldn't know me from Adam. :)

Best I can tell, the SDL2 developers' employer has pulled them off it,
to work on a commercial game. There's a lesson in this, somewhere. :(

http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.sdl/71042
http://forums.libsdl.org/viewtopic.php?p=48819#48819

(I apologise for spreading rumours if this turns out not to be the case.
It is just a post on a mailing list after all.)

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