From Debian libSDL maintainers, any plans for bugfix release?

[Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo]

2016-01-15 0:27 GMT+00:00 Ryan C. Gordon <icculus at icculus.org>:
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>> No crashes yet, because we didn't uploaded the packages yet.
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>> (Note what I said above of 2.0.2 vs 2.0.3, if it's relevant).
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> Yeah, 2.0.3 is a brown-paper-bag release for a build error in 2.0.2, while 2.0.4 is like 1,300 fixes over 1.5 years. :)

Yes, we noticed that :-)

BTW, I think that I mentioned this before, but it would be very nice
to get more incremental bugfix releases if you can afford it --
cherry-picking some patches and releasing that ourselves is much more
troublesome than handle new releases every few weeks/months.


> We have been very strict about binary compatibility, and what we call 2.0.4 was field-tested by millions of Steam users over the last six months, so you are probably safe to update the packages without rebuilding everything. But if there's a specific regression, we are happy to ship a 2.0.5 to address it right away.

That's certainly reassuring!

That said, I wouldn't discard that some among the the dozens of
applications within Debian using SDL don't do some strange stuff, so
let's see how it goes when we release the upgrades -- we will let you
know if we find something strange.


Cheers and thanks for the quick replies.
-- 
Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <manuel.montezelo at gmail.com>