Bug#172189: OSG
On Fri, Feb 06, 2004 at 09:58:17PM +0200, Hugo van der Merwe wrote:
> > So, what is the status of this ITP? We use openscenegraph at work and
> > having it in Debian would be handy. If any help is needed, please tell
> > me; I can upload packages or help fixing issues or whatever can be done
> > to speed things up.
>
> The last time I looked at OSG's build process, a couple of things were
> "missing", in the lines of sonames, etc, which needed to be sorted out
> with upstream before packaging could be finished. But that's about as
> much as I currently know about the package's status.
This is the most major issue that will need to be sorted out afair too.
Unfortunately upstream didn't seem too responsive to the idea of fixing
it when I queried them about what we should do about it.
For myself, the more I looked into the code itself, the more I saw
similar issues elsewhere too, so I've been mainly exploring other options
in preference to dealing with OSG's shortcomings at this stage.
> Are there unofficial packages available? (I haven't checked recently.)
> If not, providing them should not be too much of a problem. Getting
> proper standards-compliant packages is what takes time.
There was a fellow on one of the OSG lists who was 'brute forcing' his
local builds into binary .debs and he had a site somewhere he was
uploading them to.
But it certainly didn't take me very long to build some crude source
packages out of it, however it is probably going to take someone
collaborating with upstream before they can ever reach a state that I
would consider minimally acceptable for even 'unofficial' distribution
to other people.
If someone wants to pick up that baton, they'd have my blessing to do so.
cheers,
Ron
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