[Pkg-blender-maintainers] RFC: package update for next blender version (2.42).

[Antonio Ospite]

On Thu, 1 Jun 2006 09:53:59 +0200
Antonio Ospite <ospite at studenti.unina.it> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I have an updated package to build blender from CVS.
> Finally the upstream fixed some incompatibility with python-2.3, and
> is approaching to release blender-2.42 so it is time to start updating
> the debian package.
> 
> The patch attached is a diff against the current debian dir that is on
> alioth. Please, check and make comments about the package status.
> 
> I added some overrides for lintian, and fixed some others lintian
> warnings, please comment also about that.
> There is a linda warning, yet:
>  W: blender; The font /usr/lib/blender/.bfont.ttf in package
>     ttf-bitstream-vera is considered to be a duplicate.
> 
> What to do here? Can we simply stop providing .bfont.ttf ?
> 
> As I said in a past mail, now we have to use the refactored scons
> build system, so with these changes we will NOT able anymore to build
> packages for blender 2.41 and previous versions.
> 
> Best regards,
>    Antonio.
> 

Release is nearing, anybody here on the list?
Anybody reviewed my patch to the debian directory?
Last question: should we switch to python-2.4? I think it can be done.

Thanks,
   Antonio Ospite.

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