[Pkg-blender-maintainers] Bug#477761: blender: Please move on to python2.5

[Pascal Giard]

Package: blender
Version: 2.45-4+b1
Severity: wishlist

Trying to use the NDS GL CallList export script, i faced an error¹.
As shown below, '/usr/bin/blender-bin' is compiled with python2.4.

I see the blender package also depends on python (therefore 2.5), how
come 2.4 is used instead of 2.5?

Please move to 2.5...

Thanks,

-Pascal
¹ The error is:

guessing 'blender-bin' == '/usr/bin/blender-bin'
Compiled with Python version 2.4.5.
Checking for installed Python... got it!
  File "<string>", line 113
    return ( Blender.sys.join(self.dir_path,self.mesh_name + (".h" if
(self.format) else ".bin")) )
                                                                    ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

PS: Might not be clear in your email client... the ^ is pointing the
"if"-part which syntax is not supported in 2.4.

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Versions of packages blender depends on:
ii  gettext [libgettextpo0 0.17-2            GNU Internationalization utilities
ii  libavcodec1d           0.cvs20070307-6   ffmpeg codec library
ii  libavformat1d          0.cvs20070307-6   ffmpeg file format library
ii  libavutil1d            0.cvs20070307-6   ffmpeg utility library
ii  libc6                  2.7-10            GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libdc1394-13           1.1.0-5           high level programming interface f
ii  libfreetype6           2.3.5-1+b1        FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  libgcc1                1:4.3.0-3         GCC support library
ii  libgl1-mesa-glx [libgl 7.0.3-1           A free implementation of the OpenG
ii  libglu1-mesa [libglu1] 7.0.3-1           The OpenGL utility library (GLU)
ii  libgsm1                1.0.12-1          Shared libraries for GSM speech co
ii  libilmbase6            1.0.1-2           several utility libraries from ILM
ii  libjpeg62              6b-14             The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG
ii  libogg0                1.1.3-3           Ogg Bitstream Library
ii  libopenexr6            1.6.1-3           runtime files for the OpenEXR imag
ii  libpng12-0             1.2.26-1          PNG library - runtime
ii  libraw1394-8           1.3.0-3           library for direct access to IEEE
ii  libsdl1.2debian        1.2.13-2          Simple DirectMedia Layer
ii  libstdc++6             4.3.0-3           The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libtheora0             1.0~beta2-4       The Theora Video Compression Codec
ii  libvorbis0a            1.2.0.dfsg-3      The Vorbis General Audio Compressi
ii  libvorbisenc2          1.2.0.dfsg-3      The Vorbis General Audio Compressi
ii  libx11-6               2:1.0.3-7         X11 client-side library
ii  libxi6                 2:1.1.3-1         X11 Input extension library
ii  python                 2.5.2-1           An interactive high-level object-o
ii  python-support         0.7.7             automated rebuilding support for P
ii  python2.4              2.4.5-2           An interactive high-level object-o
ii  ttf-bitstream-vera     1.10-7            The Bitstream Vera family of free
ii  zlib1g                 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-12 compression library - runtime

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