From Debian libSDL maintainers, any plans for bugfix release?

Ryan C. Gordon icculus at icculus.org
Fri Jan 15 01:07:46 UTC 2016


> 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

Yeah, hopefully we won't do it like 2.0.4 again.  :)

> 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.

Thank you! We are happy to contribute patches upstream if we find an app with a dangerous behavior (like the struct pointer example you mentioned). Just let us know!

--ryan.




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