I am guessing #909740 is what is stopping from having a libsdl2-mixer-dev transition

[shirish शिरीष]

Hi all,

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I have been trying for sometime now to understand why libsdl2-mixer
isn't the default. I tried various things to find about it. For e.g.
the multimedia mailing lists [1] but as it tracks not just sdl2 but
various other multimedia packages so that didn't work. I tried
transitions [2] but even in that big list of planned transitions it
isn't mentioned anywhere. I then tried the wiki but there is no page
for either SDL or libsdl or anything but only an old document from
2012 [3] if the wiki is to be believed, maybe that needs to go a
massive change as well. The only thing which made any sense was this
bug which I tracked from the pkg-sdl-maintainers list [4] .

I also tried to use two methods to see which all packages depend upon
libsdl-mixer1.2 to see which will give me the results.

The first one I tried was -

$ aptitude why libsdl-mixer1.2

This gave so many packages I didn't know what to make of it.

Even apt-rdepends -b libsdl-mixer-1.2 gives so many options seems it
will be a long haul to do anything like that :(

1. https://lists.debian.org/debian-multimedia/2019/
2. https://release.debian.org/transitions/
3. https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/DebianSdlGroup
4. https://alioth-lists.debian.net/pipermail/pkg-sdl-maintainers/

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