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

[Gianfranco Costamagna]

Hello,

>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

it was just -ENOCOFFEEYETONMONDAY error :)

>(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.

I feel exactly the same, the API didn't change, they added new stuff, but they didn't change the existing API.

So, *theoretically* if we rename the library providing also the old name, and we provide a symlink to the old SDL location
(this to be done for libsdl2-ttf, and we also provide the old libsdl1.2*->dev symlink),
probably the applications will just use libsdl2 ttf package with no need to port anything...

How do you feel about this nasty idea?

Gianfranco