Debian Bug report logs - #788688
Please update to 2.0.4

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Sebastian Dröge <slomo@debian.org>

To: submit@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Please update to 2.0.3

Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2015 11:59:32 +0200

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Package: libsdl2
Severity: wishlist

Hi,

please update the package in unstable to 2.0.3, or the (AFAIK) soon to
be released 2.0.4. I have some software here that requires 2.0.3 or
newer unfortunately.

Thanks!

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Message #10 received at 788688@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: "Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo" <manuel.montezelo@gmail.com>

To: Sebastian Dröge <slomo@debian.org>, 788688@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Please update to 2.0.3

Date: Sat, 31 Oct 2015 20:03:51 +0000

(Sorry for the duplicate Sebastian, I forgot to include the bug report
in the first reply).

2015-06-14 10:59 Sebastian Dröge:
>Package: libsdl2
>Severity: wishlist
>
>Hi,
>
>please update the package in unstable to 2.0.3, or the (AFAIK) soon to
>be released 2.0.4. I have some software here that requires 2.0.3 or
>newer unfortunately.

I seem to remember that 2.0.3 didn't introduce any interesting changes,
other than fixes or support for other OSs (Windows or Mac, cannot
remember), which is the reason why I never attempted to package that
version.  What's the feature that you need that requires 2.0.3?  Or is
it perhaps some VCS changes after 2.0.3?

Since I didn't think that 2.0.3 were interesting I was hoping (and
waiting for many months, or year+ now) that they release 2.0.4 at some
point, so we can package a "known milestone", and so we don't have to
cherry pick fixes that people request us from time to time.

For doing this cherry-picking, in the past the Debian packages
introduced ABI changes or behaviours that people depended upon, or wrong
patches that later were reverted without us noticing for years... so I
was trying to avoid this now.

In any case, packaging 2.0.3 at this point (19 months after) doesn't
look like a very good option to me.  I don't know why upstream people
are so reluctant to release 2.0.4 :-/


Cheers.
-- 
Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <manuel.montezelo@gmail.com>

Message #15 received at 788688@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Sebastian Dröge <slomo@coaxion.net>

To: "Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo" <manuel.montezelo@gmail.com>,Sebastian Dröge <slomo@debian.org>,788688@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Please update to 2.0.3

Date: Sat, 31 Oct 2015 22:10:29 +0200

Hi Manuel,

On October 31, 2015 10:03:51 PM EET, "Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo" <manuel.montezelo@gmail.com> wrote:
>(Sorry for the duplicate Sebastian, I forgot to include the bug report
>in the first reply).
>
>2015-06-14 10:59 Sebastian Dröge:
>>Package: libsdl2
>>Severity: wishlist
>>
>>Hi,
>>
>>please update the package in unstable to 2.0.3, or the (AFAIK) soon to
>>be released 2.0.4. I have some software here that requires 2.0.3 or
>>newer unfortunately.
>
>I seem to remember that 2.0.3 didn't introduce any interesting changes,
>other than fixes or support for other OSs (Windows or Mac, cannot
>remember), which is the reason why I never attempted to package that
>version.  What's the feature that you need that requires 2.0.3?  Or is
>it perhaps some VCS changes after 2.0.3?

The Haskell sdl2 bindings require 2.0.3 for some unspecified reasons, explicitly stating the .3 on the website. No idea what exactly :)

https://github.com/haskell-game/sdl2

Message #20 received at 788688@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: "Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo" <manuel.montezelo@gmail.com>

To: Sebastian Dröge <slomo@coaxion.net>

Cc: Sebastian Dröge <slomo@debian.org>, 788688@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Please update to 2.0.3

Date: Sat, 31 Oct 2015 20:50:36 +0000

2015-10-31 20:10 GMT+00:00 Sebastian Dröge <slomo@coaxion.net>:
> Hi Manuel,
>
> On October 31, 2015 10:03:51 PM EET, "Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo" <manuel.montezelo@gmail.com> wrote:
>>(Sorry for the duplicate Sebastian, I forgot to include the bug report
>>in the first reply).
>>
>>2015-06-14 10:59 Sebastian Dröge:
>>>Package: libsdl2
>>>Severity: wishlist
>>>
>>>Hi,
>>>
>>>please update the package in unstable to 2.0.3, or the (AFAIK) soon to
>>>be released 2.0.4. I have some software here that requires 2.0.3 or
>>>newer unfortunately.
>>
>>I seem to remember that 2.0.3 didn't introduce any interesting changes,
>>other than fixes or support for other OSs (Windows or Mac, cannot
>>remember), which is the reason why I never attempted to package that
>>version.  What's the feature that you need that requires 2.0.3?  Or is
>>it perhaps some VCS changes after 2.0.3?
>
> The Haskell sdl2 bindings require 2.0.3 for some unspecified reasons, explicitly stating the .3 on the website. No idea what exactly :)
>
> https://github.com/haskell-game/sdl2

From today's version of the file:
https://hg.libsdl.org/SDL/file/25d1e99080ce/WhatsNew.txt

there's no mention of Haskell, but specifically, the changes that you
can see in 2.0.3 w.r.t. .2 is nothing relevant.  There are lots of
fixes or added support for WinRT, which are not listed, but also
shouldn't be relevant for any bindings.

So I assume that they mention that in the website because it's simply
the version that it was current at the  time that they wrote this, or
because 2.0.0 or .1 had some problems, or because of problems in other
platforms that they use, not Linux.

In short, I think that you should be able to use 2.0.2 safely, even if
the project claims otherwise.

And in general... yes, I would like to update the code since long ago,
but updating to 2.0.3 at this point doesn't make much sense, and I
already explained about the problems when chasing VCS releases, that
probably you are also aware of.  But it will be done as soon as they
decide to release a new version.


Cheers.
-- 
Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <manuel.montezelo@gmail.com>

Message #25 received at 788688@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Sebastian Dröge <slomo@coaxion.net>

To: "Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo" <manuel.montezelo@gmail.com>

Cc: 788688@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Please update to 2.0.3

Date: Sun, 01 Nov 2015 11:10:42 +0200

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On Sa, 2015-10-31 at 20:50 +0000, Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo wrote:
> 2015-10-31 20:10 GMT+00:00 Sebastian Dröge <slomo@coaxion.net>:
> > Hi Manuel,
> > 
> > On October 31, 2015 10:03:51 PM EET, "Manuel A. Fernandez
> > Montecelo" <manuel.montezelo@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > (Sorry for the duplicate Sebastian, I forgot to include the bug
> > > report
> > > in the first reply).
> > > 
> > > 2015-06-14 10:59 Sebastian Dröge:
> > > > Package: libsdl2
> > > > Severity: wishlist
> > > > 
> > > > Hi,
> > > > 
> > > > please update the package in unstable to 2.0.3, or the (AFAIK)
> > > > soon to
> > > > be released 2.0.4. I have some software here that requires
> > > > 2.0.3 or
> > > > newer unfortunately.
> > > 
> > > I seem to remember that 2.0.3 didn't introduce any interesting
> > > changes,
> > > other than fixes or support for other OSs (Windows or Mac, cannot
> > > remember), which is the reason why I never attempted to package
> > > that
> > > version.  What's the feature that you need that requires
> > > 2.0.3?  Or is
> > > it perhaps some VCS changes after 2.0.3?
> > 
> > The Haskell sdl2 bindings require 2.0.3 for some unspecified
> > reasons, explicitly stating the .3 on the website. No idea what
> > exactly :)
> > 
> > https://github.com/haskell-game/sdl2
> 
> From today's version of the file:
> https://hg.libsdl.org/SDL/file/25d1e99080ce/WhatsNew.txt
> 
> there's no mention of Haskell, but specifically, the changes that you
> can see in 2.0.3 w.r.t. .2 is nothing relevant.  There are lots of
> fixes or added support for WinRT, which are not listed, but also
> shouldn't be relevant for any bindings.
> 
> So I assume that they mention that in the website because it's simply
> the version that it was current at the  time that they wrote this, or
> because 2.0.0 or .1 had some problems, or because of problems in
> other platforms that they use, not Linux.
> 
> In short, I think that you should be able to use 2.0.2 safely, even
> if the project claims otherwise.

Yeah and patch their build system. Even if it's just for OSX/Windows
specific changes, I'd expect a similar situation in other software
where people either need to patch build systems or update their SDL
version.

FWIW, they even describe there how to update SDL on Ubuntu. And Ubuntu
also had 2.0.2 since almost forever. So there's probably a reason.

> And in general... yes, I would like to update the code since long
> ago, but updating to 2.0.3 at this point doesn't make much sense, and
> I already explained about the problems when chasing VCS releases,
> that probably you are also aware of.  But it will be done as soon as
> they decide to release a new version.

I just have my own version of the package since a while now, simple
uupdate and rebuild. Works for me.

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Message #32 received at 788688-close@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Gianfranco Costamagna <locutusofborg@debian.org>

To: 788688-close@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Bug#788688: fixed in libsdl2 2.0.4+dfsg1-1

Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2016 10:01:11 +0000

Source: libsdl2
Source-Version: 2.0.4+dfsg1-1

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
libsdl2, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.

A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 788688@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Gianfranco Costamagna <locutusofborg@debian.org> (supplier of updated libsdl2 package)

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Date: Sun, 03 Jan 2016 12:12:54 +0100
Source: libsdl2
Binary: libsdl2-2.0-0 libsdl2-dev libsdl2-doc libsdl2-dbg
Architecture: source amd64 all
Version: 2.0.4+dfsg1-1
Distribution: experimental
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Debian SDL packages maintainers <pkg-sdl-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org>
Changed-By: Gianfranco Costamagna <locutusofborg@debian.org>
Description:
 libsdl2-2.0-0 - Simple DirectMedia Layer
 libsdl2-dbg - Simple DirectMedia Layer debug files
 libsdl2-dev - Simple DirectMedia Layer development files
 libsdl2-doc - Reference manual for libsdl2
Closes: 739430 788540 788688 798265 804662
Changes:
 libsdl2 (2.0.4+dfsg1-1) experimental; urgency=medium
 .
   * Team upload.
   * run wrap-and-sort -sa.
   * Fix copyright lintian warning.
   * Update copyright to new release.
   * New upstream release (Closes: #788688, #798265, #788540)
     - Drop patches use-default-screen and
       fix_joystick_misc_axes.diff, applied upstream.
   * Add Files-Excluded keyword to copyright file, allowing to
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