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