Bug#1135532: pygame: consider switching to pygame-ce fork as upstream for src:pygame

Simon McVittie <[email protected]> Sat, 2 May 2026 10:55:19 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.devel.games
Message-ID <afXKB1WUL4cx08yx__49074.8734840722$1777715786$gmane$org@definition.pseudorandom.co.uk>
Source: pygame
Severity: wishlist
X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected]

pygame seems to have had governance issues that led to a fork (pygame-ce), 
and the original pygame doesn't seem to be keeping up well with 
behaviour changes to private implementation details of SDL2/sdl2-compat 
(for example the patch for #1123947 hasn't been applied upstream, and 
there's also #1135448). Perhaps Debian should migrate to pygame-ce as 
the upstream for our src:pygame package?

(I am not a pygame user or developer, so this is not my decision to 
make, and if I do a team upload to adjust to SDL changes it'll be via 
minimal patches to keep it on life-support rather than by making a 
change this intrusive.)

    smcv