Hi Simon, On Thu, Jun 22, 2023 at 2:15 PM Simon McVittie <s...@debian.org> wrote: > > On Thu, 15 Jun 2023 at 13:32:47 +0100, Simon McVittie wrote: > > esdl is a language binding for SDL 1.2, which is unmaintained upstream > > (superseded by SDL 2). > > > > Is esdl still useful, or should it be removed from Debian? It seems there > > is only one package that depends on it: wings3d. > > wings3d just dropped its dependency on esdl (apparently it wasn't actually > needed in that package), so nothing depends on esdl any more. Maybe esdl > could/should be removed from unstable now?
As far as I can see, esdl is just a thin wrapper of SDL 1.2 for Erlang. It can't be easily ported to SDL 2, so probably dropping esdl from Debian is the right thing to do. Cheers! -- Sergei Golovan
