Re: Bug#711570: ITP: libsdl2-mixer -- Mixer library for SDL2
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1
On 6/11/2013 11:56 AM, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 07:04:30AM -0400, Stephen M. Webb wrote:
>>> Normally you would keep the old version's changelog. But even if you don't, there's no need
>>> for an ITP in cases like this, or when part of a package starts to be shipped from a
>>> different source upstream. It's like opening an ITP for every upstream release. You can
>>> still do it but people are going to complain if it starts to happen very often...
>> Perhaps what is not clear is that there is no old version. The SDL2 family of libraries is
>> not a new version of the SDL family of libraries so much as a new set of incompatible
>> libraries serving the same purpose, from the same people. There is no common code base and
>> the libraries are one hundred percent parallel-installable.
> Ah, then this is a different case and I agree that it deserves an ITP.
>
<snip>
My only concern here is that while SDL2 is significantly different, there is an SDL team which
ideally would be packaging it. Have they been contacted?
I am actually a member of that team but admittedly have not been keeping up with it unfortunately. :(
Thanks,
- --
Barry deFreese
Sometimes helper, sometimes hinderer to:
Debian Games, QA, GNU/Hurd
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (MingW32)
Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/
iEYEARECAAYFAlG3TKsACgkQ5ItltUs5T36YDwCffehi4s76Tb4Yz+4DjjVKBJFP
FhsAni2AeL+FPinC9D/vIvcuisTagwID
=18wk
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
Reply to: