libsdl1.2 unicode bug causing random lockups

[Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo]

Hi Ozkan,

2015-11-16 9:33 GMT+00:00 Ozkan Sezer <sezeroz at gmail.com>:
> This is SDL bug 2325: https://bugzilla.libsdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2325
> Also see Fedora bug 1126136: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1126136
>
> In short, certain SDL_EnableUNICODE() usage in apps/games can drop some
> keyboard events and result in lockups.
>
> One of the affected games is hexen2 (uhexen2.sf.net) which I am the
> mainstream maintainer, and one of my users reported that he ran into
> this bug in ubuntu:
> http://sf.net/p/uhexen2/discussion/425207/thread/6f168cfb/?limit=25&page=1#ecde
>
> I am not using debian or ubuntu, so I don't know how to report this
> the right way, so I am sending this as an email to libsdl debian
> maintainers.
>
> SDL upstream already has fixed the bug, so it would be nice to see it
> fixed in the debian/ubuntu/etc realm.

I got in contact by the end of last year with SDL upstream to ask if
they had a release in mind, and they did.

There's now ongoing work to release this to Debian, so hopefully it
will be available soon.


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