Bug#570053: ITA: blender -- Very fast and versatile 3D modeller/renderer
Hello Cyril,
I'm CCing this e-mail to you just to ask, when you say
Enable the "security patch" again.
what patch are you talking about? I looked at unstable's patches directory for
the word security, but I didn't find anything. Is that some debian terminology
I'm not familiar with?
On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 12:56:42PM +0200, Kevin Roy wrote:
> Rafael Cunha de Almeida wrote, On 14/05/2010 03:45:
> >
> > Cool, I think I can use some help :-). I'm not sure how to add two maintainers
> > to a project, but we can figure it out later.
> >
>
> Actually I'm completely new about the Debian packaging "world" and I am
> still learning how it works. So I can work and contribute on the git and
> let you the uploads thing.
>
Hello Kevin,
Alright, I have been maintaining a patch, but I'm no expert either. Do you have
jabber (it works on google talk as well)? Maybe you could add me:
rca@jabber-br.org. That way we have faster communication.
> >> I've already cloned the git repository located at
> >> <http://git.debian.org/?p=collab-maint/blender.git;a=summary> and I'm
> >> actually playing with it :).
> >>
>
> Here is my github clone : git://github.com/kiniou/blender-debian.git
> I forgot to tell I'm working/developping with Ubuntu Lucid actually but
> i'm looking to build with pbuilder and Debian mirror. This is why i've
> got a branch called ubuntu-lucid.
I think that if you are chrooting to a debian tree it shouldn't matter if you
use ubuntu or debian. My name on github is aflag: github.com/aflag. Can you add
me to that project so we can both make changes to that repository?
I have changed minor things on top of your modifications. I added a changelog
entry and I've created the file debian/source/format. You need to add yourself
to the changelog as well, take a look on dch to know how to add new entries on
that file. I think a dch -a will work once you have your email and name
configurated correctly.
For now, my modifications are at:
http://kontesti.me/~rafael/debian/blender/blender.git
if you want to check out.
> > Yes, when I wrote that either there wasn't a alpha 2, or I did a poor job
> > looking at the site :P. Anyway, I'm trying to compile alpha 2 now, which can be
> > found at:
> > https://svn.blender.org/svnroot/bf-blender/tags/blender-2.52-release/
> > you probably know that already.
> >
> > I'll have more time to work on this package on the weekend, for now I've played
> > with it enough to see that I'll need to figure out about Collada. Right now
> > blender is failing to compile due to missing collada headers.
>
> Strange ... the build failed for me at the linking process because of
> openjpeg missing header. It failed only with pbuilder but not with
> dpkg-buildpackage and so far I did not find any clue about this issue.
That is strange. I haven't been using pbuilder, but I use debuild directly. I'm
not sure why it wouldn't work with pbuilder. I'm not sure what that openjpeg
library does, but if it adds feature to blender, it's nice to leave it on. BTW,
why did you add
OPTION(WITH_BUILDINFO "Include extra build details" ON)
OPTION(WITH_INSTALL "Install accompanying scripts and language files needed to run blender" ON)
I don't think there was new scripts added to it with WITH_INSTALL option.
I have been talking to people on IRC and it seems that blender
internationalization isn't really ready yet. It seems like English is really the
only option available. There's this guy named bdiego who seems to work with
that. Perhaps he can give us some pointers as to how internationalization will
work. However, I think we could just drop it altogether for now
(/usr/share/blender/2.5/locale isn't even the right place for that to be, it
should be at /usr/share/locale.)
I think we should figure out our TODO list so we can divide the work to be done
between us. The original TODO:
- Enable the "security patch" again.
=> asking KiBi about it.
- Maybe double-check localization.
=> seems like there's no localization for now. Ask bdiego about it.
- Check building within unstable.
- Finally move 2.50 alpha 0 to unstable.
Next step I think is checking each of the current bugs to see if
upstream mentions fixing them and also check if we can reproduce the bugs. Then
we can update changelog as needed.
> > Collada seems to be needed in order to export blender projects to a XML format.
> > It's possible to compile blender without it, but I think it would be much better
> > to support it. Unfortunately I don't see collada (or opencollada) in debian's
> > repository. Do you know anything about this issue?
>
> I remember that Collada export was done with some python script in 2.49
> and I think it could be ported to 2.5 but maybe it's worth packaging
> opencollada. Anyway for now I disabled it in the patch
> 10_build_configuration for tests.
Yes, I talked to KiBi on IRC and I think we're better off leaving that support
out for now. It'd utimately require opencollada package to be created and
maintained on debian. That's a thing to be thought about in the future, I think.
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