On 16/07/2019 13.17, Aleksandar Markovic wrote: > Hello, Gerd, Daniel, and others involved. > > I have multiple reports from end users that say that transition from > SDL 1.2 to SDL 2.0 was difficult, or even impossible for their hosts. > In that light, they don't appreciate removing SDL 1.2 support from > QEMU. The most notable example is Ubutnu 16.04, where it looks there > is no way of installing SDL 2.0 that does not involve complete OS > upgrade, which, for various reasons, many are not willing to do.
What's the problem here? According to https://packages.ubuntu.com/xenial/libsdl2-2.0-0 the library should be available there. > It looks to me that depreciation of SDL 1.2 was a little premature. My > humble opinion is that we should not look at release dates of > libraries when we deprecate them, but release dates and end-of-support > dates of major Linux distribution that include them. We are already doing that. Our support policy can be found here: https://qemu.weilnetz.de/doc/qemu-doc.html#Linux-OS So Ubuntu 16.04 should still be supported until April in 2020. Thomas
