Bug#788688: Please update to 2.0.3

Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo manuel.montezelo at gmail.com
Sat Oct 31 20:03:51 UTC 2015


(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?

Since I didn't think that 2.0.3 were interesting I was hoping (and
waiting for many months, or year+ now) that they release 2.0.4 at some
point, so we can package a "known milestone", and so we don't have to
cherry pick fixes that people request us from time to time.

For doing this cherry-picking, in the past the Debian packages
introduced ABI changes or behaviours that people depended upon, or wrong
patches that later were reverted without us noticing for years... so I
was trying to avoid this now.

In any case, packaging 2.0.3 at this point (19 months after) doesn't
look like a very good option to me.  I don't know why upstream people
are so reluctant to release 2.0.4 :-/


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



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