[Bf-committers] Debian/Ubuntu package Blender

Sergey Sharybin sergey.vfx at gmail.com
Thu Aug 15 15:36:54 CEST 2013


Couple of things:

- You're looking into stable debian package. Which is never gonna to have
any major update.
- Experimental branch does have brand-new blender 2.68a
- Not sure what's the stopper to move newer blender from experimental to
testing. It could be caused by all that horror with libraries dependencies
or so (OSL, OpenEXR2.0 and so on). This features might be disabled for
debian builds, but that's gonna to make some guys unhappy. This means other
package maintainers shall either update them and even some new packages
need to be added to debian repo (which might be tuff task because debian is
always strict on quality of package and it's maintaince). It's solvable,
but need to be communicated much better between multiple package
maintainers and us.
- There's a debian blender package maintainer here, Matteo F. Vescovi and
his nick is mfv in #blendercoders. He's usually around and doing great job
on keeping blender up-to-date at least in experimental branch.


On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 4:51 PM, Ton Roosendaal <ton at blender.org> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Debian is quite a while behind with updating Blender:
> http://packages.debian.org/stable/graphics/blender
>
> This package is also what Ubuntu offers to users.
>
> Is there anyone on this list who likes to step forward as volunteer to
> manage updates there?
>
> Thanks!
>
> -Ton-
>
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With best regards, Sergey Sharybin


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