Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Simon McVittie <s...@debian.org> X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-de...@lists.debian.org, debian-devel-ga...@lists.debian.org, pkg-sdl-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org
* Package name : sdl2-compat Version : currently 2.28.50~git20240108 Upstream Contact: https://github.com/libsdl-org/sdl2-compat/issues * URL : https://github.com/libsdl-org/sdl2-compat * License : mainly Zlib, with various other permissive licenses Programming Lang: C Description : SDL 2 binary compatibility library wrapping SDL 3 sdl2-compat provides a binary compatible API for programs built against SDL 2, but using SDL 3. . If you are writing new code, please target SDL 3 directly (when it becomes stable) instead of using this layer. Debian packages should not depend or build-depend on this package: please use libsdl2-2.0-0 and libsdl2-dev instead. --- ITP on behalf of the SDL team, with much of the packaging and testing being done as part of my work at Collabora Ltd. A prerelease version is here: https://salsa.debian.org/sdl-team/sdl2-compat SDL 3 (in experimental) is not yet API- or ABI-stable, so "real" SDL 2 (src:libsdl2) continues to be the recommended runtime library for SDL games and other applications for now. When SDL 3 and sdl2-compat become stable, we will want to replace "real" SDL 2 with sdl2-compat (it's a drop-in replacement), the same way "real" SDL 1.2 was replaced with sdl12-compat after the Debian 12 release. I expect that SDL upstream will eventually stop producing new releases of "real" SDL 2 at all, and expect all SDL 2 users to replace it with sdl2-compat, the same way they already discontinued "real" SDL 1.2. Until we're ready for that transition, the sdl2-compat packaging will be very similar to the way sdl12-compat was packaged in Debian 12, with the main package being a non-default library that can be substituted via the SDL_DYNAMIC_API or LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variables. As with SDL3, I want to get this into experimental well before it is ready for production use, so that it isn't too late to feed back test results and structural change suggestions to upstream.
