Bug#794562: 0ad: Test 0ad with new version of nvidia-texture-tools

[Vincent Cheng]

Hi Lennart,

On Tue, Aug 4, 2015 at 11:45 AM, Vincent Cheng <vcheng at debian.org> wrote:
> Hi Lennart,
>
> On Tue, Aug 4, 2015 at 5:56 AM, Lennart Weller <lhw at ring0.de> wrote:
>> Package: 0ad
>> Severity: wishlist
>>
>> Dear Maintainer,
>>
>> Could you test 0ad with the new nvidia-texture-tools version I uploaded to collab-maint[0]?
>> My experience with the package tells me that it might break something. The updated package
>> also includes the ARM64 support added by Martin Michlmayr which is now in upstream.
>
> I'll ping upstream to see if there are any known issues with nvtt,
> thanks for the heads up!
>
> On a side note, do you know if any of the patches applied to the
> embedded copy of nvtt in 0ad [1] would still be relevant/useful to the
> standalone nvtt packages in Debian?
>

Here's some feedback from upstream (freenode #0ad-dev):

10:19<@leper>vincent_c: I'll check (most of the upstream fixes should
be fine, but I haven't really tested it)
10:20<@leper>(though for releases it might not make a real difference
since textures are pre-cached)
10:20<@leper>getting upstream to do a release would be something
awesome that would likely get some traction if Debian packagers would
ask upstream
10:24<@leper>at least 7 patches are obsolete with a snapshot, not
entirely sure about the others (quite a few are patches in some
tickets, dunno if those werea applied)
10:30<@leper>issue 188 isn't fixed upstream yet
11:01<@leper>clang-cpp11-error.patch is included upstream it seems
11:18<@leper>rpath, 188, cmake-noqt4, cmake-devflags* seem to be the
only ones not merged upstream
11:18<@leper>so for a system package it should work, testing might be
helpful though
11:18<@leper>vincent_c: ^
11:18<@leper>(still a proper upstream release would be awesome)

If you're already in contact with upstream nvidia-texture-tools, could
you ask them to consider pushing out a new release? Thanks!

Regards,
Vincent