pygame-ce: Add version 2.5.8

[luhenry]

• Package: pygame-ce
• Version: 2.5.8
• Source: https://github.com/pygame-community/pygame-ce
• Docs: https://pyga.me

Compiles pygame-ce's SDL2-based C/Cython extensions via its meson-python build. Upstream publishes no riscv64 wheel.

Mirrors upstream's build-manylinux.yml.

Differs from upstream

• Builds SDL2/SDL2_image/SDL2_ttf/SDL2_mixer/portmidi from source, not upstream's docker_base image - no riscv64 SDL2-devel exists (Rocky 10 dropped it for sdl2-compat)
• Drops SDL2_mixer's MOD (libxmp/modplug) and fluidsynth-MIDI backends - EPEL-only, and EPEL is empty on riscv64 - plus opus file decoding, which needs libopusfile that no Rocky 10 package provides, and wavpack with them so the set is coherent
• Drops harfbuzz text shaping in SDL_ttf: Rocky 10 does ship a riscv64 harfbuzz-devel, but its libharfbuzz links libglib-2.0 and libgraphite2, which auditwheel would vendor and whose copyleft sources the gpl_sources job would then have to carry - the same trim build-pygame.yml made
• Sets PG_DEPS_FROM_SYSTEM=1 - upstream's own marker for a build linked against system SDL dependencies rather than its curated set, which its test suite uses to skip what such a build cannot satisfy (upstream sets it in build-ubuntu-sdist.yml, run-ubuntu-checks.yml, dev-check.yml and build-sdl3.yml)
• python -u on the test command - pygame's runner prints a module's results only once that module finishes, so buffered stdout hides which module stalls

Matrix: cp312/cp313/cp314. numpy, the test dependency, ships riscv64 wheels for those interpreters only; pp311 is dropped for lack of riscv64 PyPy, and free-threaded builds are skipped upstream too.

Testing

• same as upstream: python -m pygame.tests -v --exclude opengl,music,timing --time_out 300, which runs 2385 tests on each interpreter

License: Wheel bundles SDL2/SDL2_image/SDL2_ttf/SDL2_mixer/portmidi and several Rocky 10 system libraries (mpg123 and jbigkit are GPL); upstream ships no licence text for any of them, so the build adds it and archives the GPL sources.

Patches

• 0001-tests-skip-the-arc-rasteriser-tests-on-riscv64.patch - pygame.draw.arc() is unreliable on riscv64: test_arc__correct_drawing never returns and test_arc__surface_clip segfaults, both inside the C rasteriser on a bare draw_arc() call. Because pygame's runner defaults to single-process mode its --time_out never applies, so the hang took whole jobs down and the segfault took the module's buffered output with it. Running draw_test under python -X faulthandler -m unittest, then each of its 252 tests in its own interpreter, leaves exactly these two failing and everything else green. riscv64-only: the same command runs 2385 tests in 18s against upstream's own x86_64 2.5.8 wheel (same SDL 2.32.10).
• 0002-tests-extend-PG_DEPS_FROM_SYSTEM-to-opus-MOD-and-HarfBuzz.patch - extends the PG_DEPS_FROM_SYSTEM marker upstream already honours to three cases it misses: the house_lo.opus and surfonasinewave.xm entries in test_load_object/test_object_namehint, which sit unguarded next to an already-guarded house_lo.wv, and test_font_set_script/test_font_set_direction, which need SDL_ttf built with HarfBuzz. Not architecture-specific - the same four tests fail for anyone building against a system SDL_mixer/SDL_ttf without those optional backends.

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