Re: Ogre > 1.12

Flavien Bridault <[email protected]> Tue, 7 Nov 2023 08:45:34 +0100
Newsgroups	gmane.linux.debian.devel.games
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Dear Debian developers,

During the late summer, I launched a bottle in the sea about the status 
of the Ogre package. I didn't get any answer so far, but I give a new 
try today. :)

I took a look at the dependencies, I can see there are only a few:

# apt-cache rdepends libogre1.12.10

libogre1.12.10
Reverse Depends:
   libogre-1.12-dev
   rviz
   python3-ogre-1.12
   ogre-1.12-tools
   libsight
   librviz6d
   libmygui.ogreplatform0debian1v5

So, to sum up, other ogre packages, sight (so me :) ), libmygui and 
rviz. Sight already builds with 1.14, libmygui too, for rviz I don't 
know but it looks quite active so I don't see any reason they could not 
update. I did myself the update from 1.12 to 1.14 in sight and it was 
not that dramatic. So in my humble opinion, it is maybe not worth 
keeping a 1.12 version.

Once again, if that can help, I can offer to work on this or to work on 
a new ogre-1.14 package. I just need some guidance to know if I should 
start with the current repository or a fresh one, and of course some 
sponsorship to get access to the repo and provide support for the upload.

Best regards,


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Le 22/08/2023 à 09:20, Flavien Bridault a écrit :
> Dear Debian developers,
>
> I am the maintainer of the Debian package of Sight [1], a toolkit for 
> medical imaging software.
>
> We rely a lot on the Ogre3D engine for the visualisation. However the 
> Ogre version (1.12.10) present in Debian is more than two years old. 
> We would like to upgrade to a more recent version to benefit from 
> bugfixes, enhancements and to ease the multiple platform support.
>
> Is there any plan to update the version of ogre soon ? I noticed a 
> branch 13.3 was started but apparently it has never been uploaded. Was 
> there any technical difficulty arising ? I guess for compatibility 
> issues with dependencies, there is a need to keep the 1.12 version 
> anyway.
>
> If the answer is negative, I can offer my help to try to solve the 
> issues or to develop a new package, ogre-1.14 for instance. However, I 
> am not an official Debian developer so I would  need a sponsor for 
> checking the package and the upload.
>
> Thank you in advance for your answer,
>
> Best regards,
>
>
> [1] https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/sight
>
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