Bug#788688: Please update to 2.0.3

[Sebastian Dröge]

On Sa, 2015-10-31 at 20:50 +0000, Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo wrote:
> 2015-10-31 20:10 GMT+00:00 Sebastian Dröge <slomo at coaxion.net>:
> > Hi Manuel,
> > 
> > On October 31, 2015 10:03:51 PM EET, "Manuel A. Fernandez
> > Montecelo" <manuel.montezelo at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > (Sorry for the duplicate Sebastian, I forgot to include the bug
> > > report
> > > in the first reply).
> > > 
> > > 2015-06-14 10:59 Sebastian Dröge:
> > > > Package: libsdl2
> > > > Severity: wishlist
> > > > 
> > > > Hi,
> > > > 
> > > > please update the package in unstable to 2.0.3, or the (AFAIK)
> > > > soon to
> > > > be released 2.0.4. I have some software here that requires
> > > > 2.0.3 or
> > > > newer unfortunately.
> > > 
> > > I seem to remember that 2.0.3 didn't introduce any interesting
> > > changes,
> > > other than fixes or support for other OSs (Windows or Mac, cannot
> > > remember), which is the reason why I never attempted to package
> > > that
> > > version.  What's the feature that you need that requires
> > > 2.0.3?  Or is
> > > it perhaps some VCS changes after 2.0.3?
> > 
> > The Haskell sdl2 bindings require 2.0.3 for some unspecified
> > reasons, explicitly stating the .3 on the website. No idea what
> > exactly :)
> > 
> > https://github.com/haskell-game/sdl2
> 
> From today's version of the file:
> https://hg.libsdl.org/SDL/file/25d1e99080ce/WhatsNew.txt
> 
> there's no mention of Haskell, but specifically, the changes that you
> can see in 2.0.3 w.r.t. .2 is nothing relevant.  There are lots of
> fixes or added support for WinRT, which are not listed, but also
> shouldn't be relevant for any bindings.
> 
> So I assume that they mention that in the website because it's simply
> the version that it was current at the  time that they wrote this, or
> because 2.0.0 or .1 had some problems, or because of problems in
> other platforms that they use, not Linux.
> 
> In short, I think that you should be able to use 2.0.2 safely, even
> if the project claims otherwise.

Yeah and patch their build system. Even if it's just for OSX/Windows
specific changes, I'd expect a similar situation in other software
where people either need to patch build systems or update their SDL
version.

FWIW, they even describe there how to update SDL on Ubuntu. And Ubuntu
also had 2.0.2 since almost forever. So there's probably a reason.

> And in general... yes, I would like to update the code since long
> ago, but updating to 2.0.3 at this point doesn't make much sense, and
> I already explained about the problems when chasing VCS releases,
> that probably you are also aware of.  But it will be done as soon as
> they decide to release a new version.

I just have my own version of the package since a while now, simple
uupdate and rebuild. Works for me.
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