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

[Cyril Brulebois]

Hi all,

I know that blender('s packaging in debian) is already having a hard
time, but I was thinking about several TODOs:

 + still the copyright issue, which is AFAIR what prevented us to upload
   2.43 into experimental. Having updated it to the latest GPL/BL, it is
   already an improvement, though, so maybe we could just try? I don't
   know how much information might be missing. Wouter, any input?

 + push some of our patches upstream (e.g. manpage, kfreebsd, gcc4.3)
    => If someone already having had contact with upstream wants to take
       care of it, just do it; otherwise I'll do that in some time.

 + solve the desktop/menu integration thing (#417901)
    => I'll be working on it soon, maybe tonight.

 + check whether the genpot thingy is still needed. It takes *ages* on
   some machines (e.g. several dozen of minutes on jcristau's Ultra 5),
   and I guess it would be cool to sort this stuff out. If it's no
   longer needed, dropping it would be cool to (auto)builders and
   testers; and if it's still, notifying upstream or asking him for the
   status of this would be cool.

 + 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).

 + write the last changes to $VCS once we've decided upon the chosen
   one.


Cheers,

-- 
Cyril Brulebois
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