[Pkg-pascal-devel] view3dscene RC bugs

[Michalis Kamburelis]

Peter Blackman wrote:
>
> Hi Michalis,
>
> Thanks for commenting.
> I'm curious as to whether the build dependency on whitedune-docs
> could be avoided in any way.

Yes, this dependency can be just removed.

Debian packaging of view3dscene relies on whitedune-docs just for a
few test X3D models. I recall we talked on this mailing list that this
dependency can be maybe just dropped (
https://alioth-lists.debian.net/pipermail/pkg-pascal-devel/Week-of-Mon-20230612/004810.html
), so that whitedune issues do not affect view3dscene. Technically
view3dscene and whitedune are not related, aside from the fact that
they both support (among others) the X3D model format.

>From my side, I can offer our demo-models to test view3dscene (I could
even package a subset of demo-models with view3dscene), see
https://alioth-lists.debian.net/pipermail/pkg-pascal-devel/Week-of-Mon-20230619/004819.html
. Whatever makes packaging job easier.

I am not decisive here, but my recommendation as upstream is to indeed
drop whitedune-docs dependency, and replace with a subset of
demo-models. If there's consensus, I can point to a subset of
https://github.com/castle-engine/demo-models that give sensible
coverage of features to test.

>
> There is a debian patch for the Makefile
> https://sources.debian.org/src/view3dscene/4.2.0-1/debian/patches/fix_make_file.patch/
> that could perhaps be adopted upstream?
>

It already is :) This is the state of master branch:
https://github.com/castle-engine/view3dscene/blob/master/Makefile .

So at next view3dscene release, Debian should be able to drop that patch.

Regards,
Michalis