Bug#879905: glee: source for GLee.c and GLee.h is missing

[Tobias Hansen]

On Mon, 6 Nov 2017 02:08:44 +0100 Steve Cotton <steve at s.cotton.clara.co.uk> wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 27, 2017 at 07:55:52AM +0200, Steve Cotton wrote:
> > On Thu, 19 Oct 2017 22:47:00, Ximin Luo wrote:
> > > These files are clearly not source code. But luckily it should
> > > be possible to regenerate them from the git repo I mentioned:
> > >
> > > > [..] https://github.com/kallisti5/glee
> > 
> > It seems that repo is also not the complete source, the build
> > steps in CMakeLists.txt download specs for the GL extensions from
> >     http://www.opengl.org/registry/
> 
> It doesn't manage to download the specifications any more, which is
> probably because the website has changed since 2011. OTOH, anything
> that works with Debian's 2009 version of GLee can only be using
> extensions that existed in 2009.
> 
> AFAICS, what GLeeGen creates is a mix of:
> 
> 1. An easy wrapper for checking if an extension is supported
> 2. The DFSG-free files which are now packaged in khronos-api
> 3. The specifications under Khronos' speccopyright (not DFSG-free)
> 
> The speccopyright means that we can't make a DFSG version of GLee, but
> it also seems that it might be easier to just fix the rdeps to not use
> GLee at all.  The wrapper for checking if extensions are supported
> could be ported to use the khronos-api, if it's needed at all.
> 
> Looking at the packages that use GLee:
> 
> Fife: only a few extensions, all of them now in khronos-api. Would
> need the wrapper function.
> 
> FS-UAE: build-depends on glee-dev, but the changelog includes "use
> GLEW instead of GLee", none of the binaries depend on libglee, and the
> two #includes in the source are commented out. Bug #880944 logged.
> 
> Out Of Order: transitive dependency via Sludge
> 
> Pink Pony: build-depends on glee-dev, but doesn't #include GLee.h
> anywhere. Builds and runs fine without it (bug #880941 logged for
> dropping the dependency).
> 
> Sludge: if a compile-time check finds OpenGL ES 2.0, the code assumes
> that all of the extensions that it wants are already present, and
> doesn't use GLee's wrapper.
> 
> Unknown Horizons: transitive dependency via Fife
> 
> Steve
> 
> 

I ported sludge to use glew instead of glee, and it was the last rdep. glee can be removed now.

Best,
Tobias