Bug#732721: freeorion: Please upgrade OGRE dependency to 1.9 when upstream ready

[manuel.montezelo at gmail.com]

Source: freeorion
Severity: wishlist

Hello,

"freeorion" depends on OGRE v1.8, which is discontinued and
unsupported after 1.9.0 was released, and so it should not be present
in future releases of Debian.

Please upload at your convenience, but obviously the sooner the
better once your upstreams support the new version of OGRE, to squash
most bugs well before the freeze.

I uploaded OGRE 1.9.0, released by upstream almost a month ago, and
by now it has compiled successfully in most architectures -- except
for the ones which have GCC 4.8 as default compiler.

Release Managers decided that GCC 4.6 and 4.7 should be removed (at
least not be the defaults versions of the compiler) from releasable
architectures [1].

The transition of boost-defaults to 1.54 (or some newer version, if
maintainers bump it) might affect your package as well.

Cheers.

[1]
http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2013/11/msg00007.html

"Finally, the gcc maintainers intend to remove gcc-4.6 and gcc-4.7
from Jessie, so architectures using either version as their default
compiler cannot be considered as release architectures."