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

On Sat, May 2, 2026 at 2:56=E2=80=AFAM Simon McVittie <[email protected]> wro=
te:
>
> 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?

See #1042567 for my opinion as pygame maintainer. I'm also unsure at
this point how far pygame-ce has diverged from pygame, and whether
migrating to -ce is compatible with the existing pygame-based games in
the archive (and I suspect that many of those pygame games are dead
upstream so that's even more work for us).

Regards,
Vincent