smpeg is an extension for SDL 1.2, which is unmaintained upstream.
It seems quite likely that smpeg is dead upstream as well.

There is no direct replacement that I am aware of.

smpeg seems to include SDL 1.2 objects in its API/ABI, so it will
not be possible to convert it to SDL 2 without breaking API/ABI. As a
result, if there is a version or replacement that targets SDL 2, it should
probably be packaged separately, which is why I'm marking this bug as
"won't fix".

libsmpeg0 is depended on by a few, mostly older packages:

- btanks
- libtaoframework-sdl1.2-cil (seems obsolete, see #1037429)
- onscripter
- ruby-sdl
- sdlbrt (from src:sdlbasic)
- smpeg-plaympeg (from the same source package)
- tdfsb

Dear maintainers,

version 2.0.0 of smpeg does support compilation on top of SDL2.  So I
have filed an RFP for src:smpeg2 [1].  Unluckily, all recent updates
since version 2.0.0 are only to be found in the Git repository.  There
hasn't been published any newer version than 2.0.0 so far.

Best regards,

Thomas Uhle


[1] https://bugs.debian.org/1039593

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