From: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
To: Aleksandar Markovic <aleksandar.m.mail@gmail.com>,
Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>,
"berrange@redhat.com" <berrange@redhat.com>,
QEMU Developers <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [QUESTION] SDL 1.2 support
Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2019 13:54:13 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <054d5b29-6482-1d71-3866-057dd00cb021@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAL1e-=jiySpoypabXMkUsO=2pqgUrRxUhac=JM_V=2sn2LPhWA@mail.gmail.com>
On 16/07/2019 13.17, Aleksandar Markovic wrote:
> Hello, Gerd, Daniel, and others involved.
>
> I have multiple reports from end users that say that transition from
> SDL 1.2 to SDL 2.0 was difficult, or even impossible for their hosts.
> In that light, they don't appreciate removing SDL 1.2 support from
> QEMU. The most notable example is Ubutnu 16.04, where it looks there
> is no way of installing SDL 2.0 that does not involve complete OS
> upgrade, which, for various reasons, many are not willing to do.
What's the problem here? According to
https://packages.ubuntu.com/xenial/libsdl2-2.0-0 the library should be
available there.
> It looks to me that depreciation of SDL 1.2 was a little premature. My
> humble opinion is that we should not look at release dates of
> libraries when we deprecate them, but release dates and end-of-support
> dates of major Linux distribution that include them.
We are already doing that. Our support policy can be found here:
https://qemu.weilnetz.de/doc/qemu-doc.html#Linux-OS
So Ubuntu 16.04 should still be supported until April in 2020.
Thomas
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-07-16 11:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-07-16 11:17 [Qemu-devel] [QUESTION] SDL 1.2 support Aleksandar Markovic
2019-07-16 11:41 ` Peter Maydell
2019-07-16 17:48 ` Aleksandar Markovic
2019-07-16 18:30 ` Peter Maydell
2019-07-16 11:50 ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2019-07-16 11:54 ` Thomas Huth [this message]
2019-07-16 17:09 ` Aleksandar Markovic
2019-07-16 17:44 ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2019-07-16 18:06 ` Aleksandar Markovic
2019-07-16 18:16 ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2019-07-17 18:34 ` Aleksandar Markovic
2019-07-17 18:57 ` Eric Blake
2019-07-17 19:20 ` Aleksandar Markovic
2019-07-17 19:57 ` Eric Blake
2019-07-16 18:20 ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2019-07-18 6:20 ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2019-07-29 10:36 ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2019-07-29 11:27 ` Aleksandar Markovic
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