Re: Blender 4.5 LTS Support
Thanks for the info.
> I must admit I hadn't paid a visit to see if Ubuntu fixed that same issue somehow in the meanwhile. Let me know, in case.
Unfortunately, it doesn't seem that way. I'll see what I can do there
and will keep you posted.
Aside from that, are there any blockers that you're aware of for the
new Blender LTS?
-Mitchell Augustin
On Fri, Oct 3, 2025 at 4:22 AM Matteo F. Vescovi <mfv@debian.org> wrote:
>
> Hi Mitchell!
> Sorry the late reply.
>
> On Tue, Sep 30, 2025 at 11:04 PM Mitchell Augustin <mitchell.augustin@canonical.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Matteo,
>>
>> Any updates on this?
>>
>> If I can provide any help here, please let me know. (I'd be happy to take a look at a WIP branch if you have one and are busy with other things).
>
>
> I had to concentrate and try to remember why I hadn't updated Blender already in the past and I recalled something connected to minizip; and in fact:
>
> https://github.com/AcademySoftwareFoundation/OpenColorIO/issues/1971
>
> an issue I opened back in April 2024, when I tried to update OCIO to v2.3.2 because Blender already bumped the minimum requirement to build ok.
> But I'm still stuck there because of lack on motivation (packaging yet another minizip version just for OCIO and Blender is a bit overkill) and time (life goes on).
>
> So, feel free to help me getting rid of this PITA, really. ;-)
> I must admit I hadn't paid a visit to see if Ubuntu fixed that same issue somehow in the meanwhile. Let me know, in case.
>
> Thanks a lot in advance.
>
> Cheers.
>
> mfv
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