Couple of things: - You're looking into stable debian package. Which is never gonna to have any major update. - Experimental branch does have brand-new blender 2.68a - Not sure what's the stopper to move newer blender from experimental to testing. It could be caused by all that horror with libraries dependencies or so (OSL, OpenEXR2.0 and so on). This features might be disabled for debian builds, but that's gonna to make some guys unhappy. This means other package maintainers shall either update them and even some new packages need to be added to debian repo (which might be tuff task because debian is always strict on quality of package and it's maintaince). It's solvable, but need to be communicated much better between multiple package maintainers and us. - There's a debian blender package maintainer here, Matteo F. Vescovi and his nick is mfv in #blendercoders. He's usually around and doing great job on keeping blender up-to-date at least in experimental branch.
On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 4:51 PM, Ton Roosendaal <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > Debian is quite a while behind with updating Blender: > http://packages.debian.org/stable/graphics/blender > > This package is also what Ubuntu offers to users. > > Is there anyone on this list who likes to step forward as volunteer to > manage updates there? > > Thanks! > > -Ton- > > -------------------------------------------------------- > Ton Roosendaal - [email protected] - www.blender.org > Chairman Blender Foundation - Producer Blender Institute > Entrepotdok 57A - 1018AD Amsterdam - The Netherlands > > > > _______________________________________________ > Bf-committers mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers > -- With best regards, Sergey Sharybin _______________________________________________ Bf-committers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers
