Status of pygame-ce in Linux package managers

[Starbuck5]

One bit of feedback I've seen for us is that some people really don't want to use pypi to get their Python packages.

• https://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/1knwiyt/comment/msmluhl/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

• Move from pygame to pygame-ce mriale/PyDPainter#208

We haven't really asked the package managers to include us, so I'm opening this issue to track the subject and take notes.

Families:

• Debian
  • Ubuntu (https://packages.ubuntu.com/plucky/python3-pygame)
  • Raspberry Pi OS (It just uses debian packages ?)

https://packages.debian.org/sid/python3-pygame
https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-relationships.html#conflicting-binary-packages-conflicts
https://salsa.debian.org/python-team/packages/pygame

• Arch

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Arch_User_Repository#How_to_get_a_PKGBUILD_into_the_extra_repository
They want a user to put it in the AUR, other users to vote on it, then get popular and be included. I see no place to put in a request or get in touch with their package manager people.
https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/python-pygame/ (only supports x86_64?)
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/PKGBUILD#conflicts

• NixOS https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/tree/master/pkgs/development/python-modules/pygame-ce