Hi, On Wed, 2016-04-20 at 16:03 +0000, shirish शिरीष wrote: > I had previously asked if somebody would package 5.1.6 but as Tobias > had pointed out, it was an unstable branch. > > See #704141 for the discussion. > > Now 5.2 has been released by upstream, see > http://liballeg.org/download.html as well as the detailed changelog . > > http://liballeg.org/changes-5.2.html > > I do see that there are changes from both stable as well as unstable > branch added in the repo as well as that the library is > source-compatible but not binary compatible which probably means it > will need to conflict with liballegro5.0 binary package. If it's only binary incompatible, then a standard library transition should work here. There shouldn't be any need for conflicting packages. > I ran both apt-cache rdepends liballegro5.0 as well apt-rdepends > liballegro5.0 but didn't see any games or anything which depends > which will hurt if the new library is added before debian freeze. Ok. There doesn't seem to be any reverse dependencies of allegro5 at all. > I also did a mock purge to see if there were any libraries which were > affected and the only one which seems to be affected is libdumb1-dev > . > I am guessing the only reason why this version is not being shipped > is > due to the dumb library allegro 4 support issue, see #799008 as well > as the relevant issue in libdumb's new upstream > https://github.com/kode54/dumb/issues/21 libdumb is built against allegro4. How will upgrading allegro5 from 5.0 to 5.2 have any effect here? > Is this a correct assessment of the situation. Is there a possibility > of having liballegro5.2 and the relevant libdumb version have it in > experimental so people who want to try some games with the new > version > can try it ? See > http://forum.freegamedev.net/viewtopic.php?f=22&t=6477 for discussion > of a game which uses the newer version of a library. I don't see why allegro 5.2 can't be uploaded at some point. What do you need libdumb for? The thread doesn't mention anything about it. James
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