Bug#760058: Will Ogre 1.8 remain in Jessie? (Was: The other packages)

[Olek]

On 10/25/2014 09:05 AM, Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo wrote:
> (Please remember to copy the submitters of the bug reports in the
> future, the
> BTS does not send e-mail automatically).

Ah, apologies. I assumed that you would be monitoring the games mailing 
list but I probably should not have made that assumption.

>
> So as I said, I hoped to have only 1.9, but that doesn't seem possible now,
> specially because there was no reaction from CEGUI (*) and another
<snip>
>
> (*) I think that, if somebody is interested, s/he should offer help to the
>     maintainer, or request to adopt the package; because the package is
> awfully
>     out of date.

I'm afraid that it won't help for Jessie but I would be happy to help 
whoever is maintaining CEGUI. It's used in Ember and I'm a little 
familiar with it from upstream Ember work.


> I do not think that Release Managers are going to grant exceptions to this
> package, though.  I would probably leave it as it is (seems the safer
> route),
> hope that 1.8 is not removed during the freeze, and upload the latest
> upstream
> to experimental supporting 1.9 at some point in the near future.

Ok, sounds good. I'll plan to work with Stephen on updating the 
remaining libraries and getting all of the newest packages into 
experimental.

-Olek