[Pkg-blender-maintainers] Random thoughts/todos about blender in debian

[Antonio Ospite]

On Fri, 13 Apr 2007 16:41:02 +0200
Florian Ernst <florian_ernst at gmx.net> wrote:

>
> Hmm, that depends. When uploading to unstable we get a larger user
> base and thus blender will get tested more thoroughly at the cost of
> a more bumpy ride for some (unstable) users. Provided all issues, if
> any, will be communicated upstream this might help getting a better
> 2.43a. As Etch has just been released, now is quite a godd time for
> any bumpy rides outside of expiremental. :)
>

Yes, I agree, go uploading to unstable.
Having some breakage in unstable is almost a pleasure after a quite long
freeze time :)

> > >  + maybe move from cvs to svn for the packaging (I guess that
> > > everyone knows about cvs VS svn things, just wanted to know if we
> > > stick to cvs for historical reasons or for personal tastes or
> > > something like that).
> > Nobody cares? I guess that status quo prevails, then.
>
> Well, for our purposes CVS seems to just work. Is changing to a
> different system really worth the effort? It's not that I'm opposed
> to a change, but I wouldn't like to change just for the sake of it.
> BTW, on debian-www there's a discussion about such a change, too,
> which mentions quite a few good points, even though we don't share
> many of the problems.
>

Yes CVS is still fine for blender packaging, maybe we can switch to svn
when also blender itself will do the switch, and we would motivate the
change (to ourselves) with a (fake) "coerence" argument :)

>
> Wouter, Antonio, anyone, are you out there? What's your position on
> this?
>
> Cheers,
> Flo
>

I've been  bit busy, but I'll try to enforce some communication toward
upstream before I will get flooded again by exams (in june...)
They are approaching a 2.44 release in two month or so, and then we
should try to make them accept as many patches as possible.
Anyone has started to report bugs and patches already?

Best wishes,
   Antonio.

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