Bug#706001: libsfml2 is still in new

[shirish शिरीष]

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On 10/13/13, James Cowgill <jc1311 at york.ac.uk> wrote:
> Hello Shirish,

Hello James,

> On Sun, 2013-10-13 at 03:40 +0530, shirish शिरीष wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> For some reason libsfml2 is still in new. It seems there was a new
>> version uploaded to the archive.
>>
>> https://ftp-master.debian.org/new/libsfml_2.1+dfsg-2.html
>>
>> from dfsg-1 to dfsg-2.
>>
>> Also the uploaded date has changed to 6th Oct 2013.
>
> Yes I made some improvements to the package and it was re-uploaded. You
> can see all the changes in the git repo here:
>  http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-games/libsfml.git

Saw your sponsor make a few changelog fixes on the 7th as well

http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-games/libsfml.git

>> Also see/saw the reason why he has set the binaries to be uploaded to
>> experimental as well.
>>
>> From http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=706001#15
>>
>> "I've done some work on packaging SFML 2.1 (since i needed it done
>> anyway). I've tried to follow the debian policies as much as possible so
>> maybe this could be included in debian. I've only set the distribution
>> to experimental since this would probably break the libcsfml and
>> python-sfml packages which still use SFML 1.6. "
>>
>> I do hope that both libsfml 1.6 and libsfml2 can exist on one machine.
>
> The library packages (eg libsfml-audio1.6 and libsfml-audio2) can
> coexist, although the 1.6 packages will eventually disappear from the
> archive.
> However the -dev package containing the headers will not be able to
> coexist since the headers from 1.6 and 2.1 have the same filenames. This
> is why an upload to unstable will break libcsfml and python-sfml if they
> get rebuilt.

so basically this is how I see it needs to play out.

Have libsfml2 and its brothers and sisters out in experimental.

Then at some point do a transition of libsfml1.6 to libsfml2. I don't
think there are any games
which depend on libsfml 1.6 or atleast there weren't any games which
depended on libsfml1.6 I could find so it probably would be a
self-contained transition. You will need to write a .ben file for it.

release.debian.org/transitions/
http://ben.debian.net/

I have also explicitly used your sponsorer's email id so he can also
share with us when he would be committing libsfml2 to the archive (or
is the ball in ftp-master's hands now ? )

Looking forward to know more about the status of the package.

> Regards,
>  James

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