Accepted sdl-ttf2.0 2.0.18-1~exp1 (source) into experimental

Simon McVittie smcv at debian.org
Mon Jan 24 09:25:56 GMT 2022


On Mon, 24 Jan 2022 at 08:36:36 +0000, Gianfranco Costamagna wrote:
> Will ask to remove the one from experimental, and maybe I'll try to
> push against ttf2 some games.

This is probably obvious, but just in case you weren't aware (since
the phrasing of your message implied you might not be): I believe games
need be ported from SDL 1.2 to SDL 2 as a single change, so for example
angband would need to move from the SDL 1.2 family

- libsdl1.2-dev
- libsdl-gfx1.2-dev
- libsdl-image1.2-dev
- libsdl-mixer1.2-dev
- libsdl-net2.0-dev
- libsdl-ttf2.0-dev

to the SDL 2 family

- libsdl2-dev
- libsdl2-gfx-dev
- libsdl2-image-dev
- libsdl2-mixer-dev
- libsdl2-net-dev
- libsdl2-ttf-dev

(but the APIs of the smaller libraries like sdl-ttf have not changed much,
if at all, so that part should be straightforward).

angband is a convenient example because it build-depends on the whole
family of packages, but the angband binary package doesn't actually
depend on libsdl-gfx1.2-5, so maybe its B-D on libsdl-gfx1.2-dev could be
dropped completely instead of replacing it with libsdl2-gfx-dev.

    smcv



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