Cyril Brulebois: Package updates
This (extended) weekend features:
pkg-phototools
- Update libgphoto2 which is used (surprise!) by gphoto2 and others to access digital cameras. Some hours after 2.4.1-1 got uploaded, 2.4.2 got released. Got to get back to it soon
- Prepare an SVN snapshot of hugin,
which is a panorama sticher, using libpano13 from
panotools. People are so
active with
their GSOC students
that the long-awaited 0.7.0 version isn t released yet, hence the
snapshot.
Testing is very welcome: binaries for
i386
andamd64
will be available on people.d.o until the upload. Thanks to Julien Valroff and Johan Kiviniemi for their patches, and to the NMUers who took care of hugin in the meanwhile. - Bug triaging for both of them has been quite missing lately, but hopefully that ll get fixed soon.
- Fix blender, which could have migrated, if
ftgl wouldn t be still missing on
alpha
beingoptional:uncompiled
doesn t help. It started to FTBFS: bug #490317. Against crappy upstream build system,strace -v
to the rescue (-v
is needed to get all variables, so that one can figure out why thatexecve
call failed). Here s the fixing-an-RC-bug dance for Stephen Frost, as promised:\o_ /o/ \o\ _o/
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crash (bug #487890) got fixed too, although I didn t get any ACK from upstream. Oh, and I know about this tiny bug (which appears during the byte-compilation phase). I m not very keen on trying to get it fixed myself and possibly breaking stuff, especially when upstream doesn t care, and when the following commits are looking even more messy. - Update sunflow, a rendering system for photo-realistic image synthesis, it can now happily depend on better Java packages now that openjdk-6 made it through NEW.
- A new graphviz upstream bugfix release is available.
- As written above, a new libgphoto2 upstream release is available.
- A new module, python-ssl
(bug #453101), might be nice. Python 2.6 got a real
ssl
module and thispython-ssl
module would be a backport of this newssl
module to Python versions 2.4 and 2.5. Interested people can compare the currentssl
module API against the one available in the newssl
module. - And the sponsor queue is growing, too.