Am Sat, Aug 24, 2024 at 02:57:22PM +0000 schrieb Scott Kitterman: > On August 24, 2024 10:59:17 AM UTC, Mark Weyer <m...@weyer-zuhause.de> wrote: > >I beg you to reconsider. > > > >> ocamlsdl depends on an obsolete version of SDL and has no reverse > >> dependencies. Please remove it from unstable. > > > >While SDL 1.2 may be obsolete, ocamlsdl itself is not: There does not seem to > >be a replacement available. Personally, I use libsdl-ocaml-dev in several > >projects. (None of which are packaged in Debian, abmittedly.) > > For use with a project that isn't packaged, what's the benefit of having this > one thing packaged? Not having looked into it, I assume this needs SDL 1.2 > and if we don't have that in the archive, this isn't going to be useful, > right?
The use of `*-dev` packages (in this case `libsdl-ocaml-dev`) ultimately is for the benefit of users who are developers. As for availability of SDL 1.2: I do not know the details, but my impression is that `libsdl1.2-compat-dev` would provide a replacement. Best regards, Mark Weyer
