Bug#1038016: adlibtracker2: Depends on SDL 1.2

[Gregor Riepl]

Package: adlibtracker2
Version: 2.4.24-2
Followup-For: Bug #1038016
X-Debbugs-Cc: onit...@gmail.com

I can confirm that the package builds and runs fine with libsdl1.2-compat-dev.

However, it seems to be broken in general, because no GUI is shown and the
adtrack2 process can only be ended with a SIGKILL.
This behavior is the same with the current package in sid.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: trixie/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 
'testing-debug'), (500, 'stable-debug'), (500, 'proposed-updates-debug'), (300, 
'unstable'), (1, 'experimental-debug'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 6.6.13-amd64 (SMP w/24 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_GB
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages adlibtracker2 depends on:
ii  libsdl1.2debian  1.2.68-2

adlibtracker2 recommends no packages.

adlibtracker2 suggests no packages.

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Bug#1038016: adlibtracker2: Depends on SDL 1.2

[Simon McVittie]

On Thu, 15 Jun 2023 at 12:28:56 +0100, Simon McVittie wrote:
> 4. Install libsdl1.2-compat-dev and recompile the package.

I tried this on a porterbox and it seems to build fine. I didn't test
the resulting binaries.

smcv

Bug#1038016: adlibtracker2: Depends on SDL 1.2

[Simon McVittie]

Source: adlibtracker2
Tags: trixie sid
User: pkg-sdl-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org
Usertags: libsdl1.2

This package has a Depends or Build-Depends on SDL version 1.2, which
is unmaintained upstream.

If possible, please port this package to SDL 2 and close this bug. There
is a migration guide at ,
and examples of successful ports from SDL 1.2 to SDL 2 can be found in
the commit history of packages like darkplaces and ioquake3.

If it is not possible to port to SDL 2, please test the package with
libsdl1.2-compat-shim (preferably version 1.2.64 or later), and leave
this bug open to track the package as still using SDL 1.2 APIs.

libsdl1.2-compat-shim is a compatibility layer that provides the SDL 1.2
API/ABI by using SDL 2: it has already replaced the "classic" SDL 1.2
library in some other distributions like Fedora and Arch, and my intention
is to do the same in Debian during the trixie release cycle.

The interesting scenarios to test with libsdl1.2-compat-shim are:

1. Install libsdl1.2-compat-shim and run the program in an X11 environment,
   such as "GNOME on Xorg" or XFCE.
   ($XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/wayland-* should not exist)
2. Install libsdl1.2-compat-shim and run the program in a Wayland
   environment such as GNOME's default mode, using Xwayland.
   ($XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/wayland-* should exist)
3. Install libsdl1.2-compat-shim and run the program in a Wayland
   environment, but this time with environment variable
   SDL_VIDEODRIVER=wayland so that it uses the native Wayland interface
   (this is not currently the default for SDL 2).
4. Install libsdl1.2-compat-dev and recompile the package.

Note that using libsdl1.2-compat and LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not sufficient if
the package contains programs that are setgid games. See

for more information.

If any of those fail, please report it as a bug in the
libsdl1.2-compat-shim or libsdl1.2-compat-dev package as appropriate,
with "affects" pointing to the program that is affected.

Thanks,
smcv

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