Bug#820014: ITP: openscenegraph-3.4 -- Portable, high level graphics toolkit for the development high performance graphics applications.

[Alberto Luaces <aluaces@udc.es>]

Hi Sebastiaan,

Sebastiaan Couwenberg writes:

>
> Is packaging 3.4 separately really wise?
>
> Having two versions of VTK in the distribution is not very fun, I'm not
> sure if the Release Team will be more appreciative of two versions of
> OpenSceneGraph.
>

Of course maintaining one package is easier than two, but...

>
> As maintainer of several packages that build depend on
> libopen{scenegraph,threads}-dev I'm strongly in favour of a single
> openscenegraph source package. Let's just prepare the transition to 3.4
> in experimental.
>

Currently, upstream *actively* updates 3.2 and 3.4 series.  You can
watch from their downloads page that latest releases (3.2.3 and 3.4.0)
were released the same day; if you go to upstream's repo at github you
can see that any patch not changing the ABI is back-ported to both: 3.2
branch was updated just 5 days ago, the same time as their trunk.

Many of the questions on the user mailing list are about 3.2 series,so
it is still widely popular, even if we chose to simply disregard Debian
packages that currently do not work with 3.4, dropping them without any
warning.

I think that your OSG-dependent work is not going to be harder —quite
the opposite, since you can choose whichever stable version works or
benefits into your packages, but if that were not the case, I'm of
course open to suggestions.

Regards,

Alberto