Re: pygame: FTBFS: dh_auto_test: error: pybuild --test -i python{version} -p "3.10 3.9" --system=custom --test-args "/usr/bin/xvfb-run {interpreter} -m pygame.tests.__main__ --exclude opengl" returned exit code 13

[Scott Talbert <swt@techie.net>]

On Wed, 23 Mar 2022, Hugh McMaster wrote:

> On Wed, 23 Mar 2022 at 02:37, Andreas Tille wrote:
>       Hi,
>
>       Am Wed, Mar 23, 2022 at 12:19:40AM +1100 schrieb Hugh McMaster:
>       > On Mon, 28 Feb 2022 at 16:40, Hugh McMaster wrote:
>       >
>       > > I did some testing and found that pygame 2.1.0 is the first
>       recent
>       > > version not affected by the FreeType test issue.
>       > >
>       > > I'll keep digging, but I'd strongly suggest migrating to the
>       most
>       > > recent upstream version as soon as possible, as I had no
>       problems
>       > > building it.
>       >
>       >
>       > Any progress on packaging the latest version of pygame?
>       >
>       > The current package will be removed from testing next week.
>
>       If you ask me lets push pygame 2.1.0 and remove anything that
>       does not
>       work with this version from testing (it would be removed from
>       there
>       anyway).  I know its not good style but stagnation in the status
>       quo
>       is also no good solution.
>
>
> Agreed. pygame 1.9.6 is now almost 3 years old.

Since there were no objections, and pygame is already slated to be kicked 
out of testing, plus given that pygame 2 is advertised as largely backward 
compatible, I went and did a cursory check on most of pygame's rdeps and 
found they seemed to work fine with pygame 2.  I just went ahead and 
uploaded the new pygame.  Let me know if anyone notices any problems.

Scott