Re: Need Povray 3.1 Maintainer

[Martin Schulze <joey@finlandia.Infodrom.North.DE>]

Drake Diedrich wrote:
>    Povray 3.1 (a raytracer) has been released, and I've had a request to
> package it. Unfortunately, 3.1 deleted experimental features in 3.0
> (halos), and does not have the patches I applied to the 3.0 codebase (PVM,
> isosurfaces).  Some of the new 3.1 features are already in the patched
> Debian 3.0 package (macros).
>    What I think we should do is create new Povray 3.1 packages, but keep the
> 3.0 packages as well.  The announcement on povray.org suggests this (keeping
> the 3.0 binaries around for legacy scenes). update-alternatives entries
> already exist for the povray binaries, as there are 2 different povray 3.0
> binaries (a bare one and a feature-laden one).

Why not adding the features from 3.0 into 3.1 and sending the upstream
authors a nice patch?

Regards,

	Joey

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