Some SDL2-* library updates?

[Gianfranco Costamagna]

Hi,



>Oh, I didn't know that you had gone ahead already, sorry.

no problem, it was a two minutes work :)


>>I started with -net Sat and it would be ready to upload but libsdl2
>had not been built on all arches and was not available in unstable
>from my local mirror, so I left it at that.  I will work and upload
>those three (-{net,ttf,mixer}) in the next few days.


wonderful!


>I'm fine, I think that you were the last one who had worked on them anyway.

yep, they are on unstable, or on the last ours of deferred queue :)

>Good, thanks.
>
>About -image, Felix was the one working on that one, I don't know if I
>ever did anything important with it.  If he doesn't reply in a couple
>of days I guess that you can go ahead.


ok, I'll do the changes and push on git in the meanwhile then

>> smpeg: I imported the new svn checkout, not it is called smpeg2 so I had to refactor the packaging.
>> seems the old one is dead, moved to libsdl2.
>> it will probably require a transition, because of the reverse dependencies.
>> (maybe we can do this later)>
>
>I had planned to do something with smpeg since a while (years!) back,
>but since there was no clear SDLv1 and SDLv2 with smpeg and since
>release freezes got in the way, I left it behind.
>
>I think that all the rest of modules (stretch, console, etc) are SDLv1
>only, and some of them abandoned since 2003, but still used by some
>software within Debian, so...


actually there is a "plan b", upload a new shiny smpeg2 tool :)

please note the package might also disappear when this bug becomes RC
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=811742


cheers,

G.