Bug#980253: libsdl1.2debian: unexpected key down release

[Maximilian Engelhardt]

Package: libsdl1.2debian
Version: 1.2.15+dfsg2-4
Severity: important
Tags: patch

Hi,

since some time I noticed a problem within a game (Unreal Tournament 2004)
using libsdl1.2 that the forward movement suddenly stopped, while I still had
the forward key pressed. This is an quite annoying bug when playing the game.
The bug likely also affects many other games using libsdl1.2.

I traced this behavior down to change [1] in the X server. Further analysis
showed that patches solving this issue haven been added to libsdl2. I opened an
upstream bug about backporting these to the SDL-1.2 branch and they have been
quickly accepted in [2].

A cherry-pick of the upstream patch from the SDL-1.2 fixing the issue is
available as merge request here:

https://salsa.debian.org/sdl-team/libsdl1.2/-/merge_requests/2

It would be really great to get this included in bullseye.

Thanks,
Maxi

[1]
https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/commit/?id=c67f2eac56518163981af59f5accb7c79bc00f6a
[2] https://hg.libsdl.org/SDL/rev/336bcaa9432c



-- System Information:
Debian Release: 10.7
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-13-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
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