Source: mlv
Tags: trixie sid wontfix
User: pkg-sdl-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org
Usertags: libsdl1.2
mlv is a convenience wrapper around SDL 1.2, which is unmaintained
upstream. It seems quite likely that mlv is unmaintained upstream as well;
there don't seem to have been any releases since 2017.
mlv seems to include SDL 1.2 objects in its API/ABI, for example in
MLV_mouse.h, so it will not be possible to convert it to SDL 2 without
breaking API/ABI. As a result, if there is a version or replacement that
targets SDL 2, it should probably be packaged separately, which is why
I'm marking this bug as "won't fix".
There does not seem to be anything in Debian that depends or build-depends
on mlv:
> smcv@coccia ~ % dak rm -R -n mlv
...
> Checking reverse dependencies...
> No dependency problem found.
and its homepage says:
> If you are not a C beginner, better use the SDL librairy (SDL, SDL_gfx,
> SDL_sound, SDL_ttf).
Is there still any benefit to Debian from having this library in the
distribution? If not, then we should probably remove it, to avoid it
taking up contributors' time during archive-wide QA (for example #1015546).
Thanks,
smcv
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This bug report is part of a mass-bug-filing:
<https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2023/06/msg00120.html>
