Hello,

I've investigated a number of Debian reported issues, and even managed to
fix some of them. It never ceases to amaze me that testing on other systems
uncovers real bugs which also happen on other platforms (but in harder to
detect ways usually). So, for me, it's always worth working on weird
platforms - if only for this reason.
https://github.com/pygame/pygame/pull/391

Thanks to Dominik for bringing them into the pygame issue tracker, and for
improving the Debian pygame package generally.

It's important to get these fixes in, as I think they are blocking a Debian
release of pygame 1.9.3. (Dominik, please correct me if I'm wrong). I think
there are some other reasons too.

... which also blocks derivatives such as Raspberrypi rasperian distro (who
don't provide any support to pygame, or Debian, and just take from Debian
packages mostly). Another important derivative is Ubuntu, which also hasn't
updated their package.

Here is the Debian tracker for the pygame package, which lists things that
need to be done. If anyone can spot something I could help out on there,
please feel free to point it out - as I have some days now to investigate
and fix things.
https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/pygame

Here is the build status on the various Debian platforms:
https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=pygame

I've been adding 1.9.4 labels to the issues which I think should perhaps
block a pygame 1.9.4 release: https://github.com/pygame/pygame/issues/390



cheers,

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