The
SDL packaging
team has recently been seriously
revived,
with Dominique Dumont reorganising the team and Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo
joining the effort. Packaging is progressively moving to Git for easier
collaboration, and developers maintaining SDL-related packages not in the team's
repository have been invited to join, too. A lot of old bugs have already been
fixed and new SDL 1.3 and sdl-perl packages have been uploaded to experimental.
SDL 1.3 brings support for newer OpenGL
APIs, input improvements like multi-touch,
gestures and force feedback device support, better Unicode support and support
for multiple windows and displays.