Re: On packaging old versions of libraries

[Eric Bavier]

On Wed, 23 Aug 2017 11:42:51 -0400
Mike Gerwitz <address@hidden> wrote:

> There is a game my kids love playing named Secret Mayro
> Chronicles.  Unfortunately, it's been unmaintained since 2012, and it
> was removed from Debian because it is no longer compatible with newer
> versions of libraries they package.[0]  There is a maintained fork of
> the game, but it's quite different from the original (intentionally).
> 
> I have the option of compiling it using old libraries (I would have to
> compile the old libraries' dependencies as well, as needed), upgrade the
> game by backporting changes from the fork (which I honestly doubt I have
> the time for right now, but I'll look into it), or run the game within a
> VM/container running an old Debian version.
> 
> I'm going to look into what is required to backport, but if I decided to
> go the first route, I would probably use Guix.  Would such a
> contribution be accepted considering it packages older libraries, which
> would add some cruft?  At the least, I would have to compile CEGUI 0.7,
> but that might need older versions of libraries itself to compile.

I think this would be fine as long as there are no known security
issues in those older libraries.  The packages could even be private to
the maryo chronicles package so that they are not available for users
to install.

FWIW my kids would love to play this game too. :)

`~Eric
 
> 
> [0]: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=812096
>

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