Bug#729289: transition: openscenegraph

[Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>]

On 2014-02-01 14:11, Rebecca N. Palmer wrote:
> The state of openscenegraph itself isn't the problem here: what we're
> waiting for is for simgear to clear NEW and for Release Team to give
> official permission (britney hint??) to ignore openwalnut for now.
> 

Actually both of those things are FTP master decisions.  If openwalnut
had been in testing, then that part would need both FTP masters and the
Release Team - but since it is not, then we just need the FTP masters
approval for getting openscenegraph decrufted at the price of breaking
openwalnut (even further).

I can ask the FTP masters to process simgear - decrufting openscenegraph
will have to wait until we have fixed all the packages that we can.

> There is the separate question of whether you want an ~rc in an Ubuntu
> LTS (14.04 freezes 20 Feb), but they finished their transition to
> 3.2.0rc months ago (by removing openwalnut) and will sync from
> experimental if you ask them to, so that isn't tied to what we do in
> Debian.
> 
> 

Based on Manuel's mail (not quoted here), I think I would prefer if we
transitioned to openscenegraph ABI 99 rather than 100.  In my eyes, it
makes the whole thing simpler and means we can start working immediately
- especially considering that our best guess on a release date for the
new version is more than a week or two away (Manuel suggested March or
later).

~Niels