Control: severity -1 grave
On Thu, 25 Aug 2022 at 15:50:04 +0100, Simon McVittie wrote:
> On Thu, 25 Aug 2022 at 15:41:37 +0200, Antoine Le Gonidec wrote:
> > When trying the bambam game on a Debian Sid, it fails to start with the
> > following error:
> ...
> > RuntimeError: SDL compiled with version 2.0.22, linked to 2.24.0
>
> Either this check should only look at the major version, or it should be
> removed completely in favour of letting the SONAME system do its job.
> Please see the upstream issue report for more details.
I'm raising this to grave, since it makes pygame unusable.
> > Building the current pygame source against Debian Sid dev libraries
> > produces a build that does not trigger this crash, so the fix is
> > probably as simple as rebuilding the python3-pygame package without the
> > need to tweak anything in its source.
>
> This is only a workaround, not a fix.
If someone applies this workaround (manually or with a binNMU), then
the bug can be downgraded back to important; but it should still be fixed,
otherwise it'll become RC again when SDL 2.26.0 is released.
smcv
