Bug#798265: Please apply upstream mouse event duplication patch

[Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo]

2015-09-07 14:51 RjY:
>Source: libsdl2
>Version: 2.0.2+dfsg1-7
>Severity: wishlist
>Tags: patch fixed-upstream
>
>Please apply this patch, cherry-picked from unreleased 2.0.4 upstream:
>
>https://hg.libsdl.org/SDL/rev/957a6ed39ad0
>
>as it fixes some very annoying mouse behaviour in SDL2.

I was hoping (and waiting for many months, or year+ now) that 2.0.4 was
released at some point, so we can package a "known milestone", and so we
don't have to cherry pick fixes like this that people request us from
time to time.

Because of this cherry-picking, in the past the Debian packages caused
subtle ABI changes or behaviours that people depended upon and diverged
from the same versions in the rest of the distributions, or wrong
patches that entered in Debian stable releases and later were reverted
without us noticing for some time and without being able to drop them in
the stable releases...

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, 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 :)


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