Re: [hatari-devel] Preparing release 2.3

[Eero Tamminen <oak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

On 10/15/20 11:48 AM, Nicolas Pomarède wrote:
> Le 15/10/2020 à 01:19, Eero Tamminen a écrit :
> > > Another possibility would be to download the src deb or src rpm for 
> > > some distro and see if they changed things for hatari. But here, I 
> > > don't have time to do this too. Managing release for windows is 
> > > already time consuming.
> >
> > For Debian things are easier as it has web pages
> > listing Hatari package bugs & patches:
> > * https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?pkg=hatari
> Hi
>
> only one old  bug  from  2012 about joystick mapping and  reporter also 
> has  problem with e-uae -> not our concern I would say, too old  and 
> unconfirmed, maybe fixed in sdl2 since then

I don't think feature bugs for SW developed outside of Debian belong to 
Debian bug tracker.

I think that particular bug could have been fixed last year by commit 
84b2566bb [1].


Gentoo seems also to provide nice package info:
https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/games-emulation/hatari

Its bug tracker has one bug about Hatari Clang/LLVM build failing with 
Hatari "make test" config file test having "FAILED" status:
* https://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=games-emulation%2Fhatari
* https://739146.bugs.gentoo.org/attachment.cgi?id=656960

=> Thomas, any comments on Clang compatibility, didn't you look at it at 
some point?


Hatari sources are patched slightly:
* 
https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/tree/games-emulation/hatari/hatari-2.2.1-r1.ebuild#n51
  -> no idea why .gz extension is removed from gzipped files...
* 
https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/tree/games-emulation/hatari/files

[1] Joystick patch is already merged by Thomas, and I think tos.img 
thing to be due to Gentoo packaging EmuTOS separately:
https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/tree/games-emulation/emutos

=> Thomas, could you add item about the joystick change to release 
notes, with links to above distro bugs it fixes?


> > * https://sources.debian.org/patches/hatari/2.2.1+dfsg-1/
>
> Mostly some reports about python UI. You can backport those patches into 
> hatari if you  think they're relevant, or contact the  patches' author 
> to discuss them.

Things that these patches change:
1. done on purpose, not changing
2. applied partially
3. already changed
4. breaks UI links to local doc files
   - would need patch also to uihelpers.py
5. weird, why change just one .py file?


Found the Fedora package info:
https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/hatari/tree/master

It's package does also some changes:
https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/hatari/blob/master/f/hatari.spec#_59

I applied 2 of the 3 changes. [3]


> So, I don't see any real packaging issues that  we should take care of, 
> which is good news.

[3] I could change all python shebangs to use "python3" as all scripts 
are compatible to it.

Are more distros now OK with that, than distros that break unless 
"python" is used?


	- Eero