Hello Simon! On Sun, 2023-06-25 at 15:48 +0100, Simon McVittie wrote: > On closer inspection, the upstream default is SDL 2, so if libsdl2-dev > happens to be installed then aranym will already accidentally switch > from SDL 1.2 to SDL 2, even with the current unmodified Debian packaging.
According to one of the upstream developers, Aranym's SDL-2 support doesn't seem to be very mature. Apparently, there are problems here and there [1]. > I'm intending to make the -dev package for sdl12-compat depend on > libsdl2-dev as a workaround for legacy SDL-dependent packages that > don't declare their build-dependencies explicitly, so when sdl12-compat > takes over the libsdl1.2-dev binary package name, aranym is going to > end up using SDL 2 in practice unless you explicitly configure with > --disable-sdl2 (please do that if you are aware of reasons why the SDL > 2 code paths are broken). OK, thanks for the heads-up. > aranym seems to compile fine in that configuration. I don't know what > Atari ROMs or other software (if any) it might need, so I haven't > attempted to test the resulting binaries. That should definitely be properly tested. We don't gain anything if a package builds find but doesn't work well for most users. Adrian > [1] https://github.com/aranym/aranym/issues/103#issuecomment-1593666173 -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer `. `' Physicist `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
