On Tue, Sep 18, 2018 at 12:08:43AM +0200, Alberto Luaces wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Alberto Luaces <alua...@udc.es> > > * Package name : openscenegraph-3.6 > Version : 3.6.3 > Upstream Author : Robert Osfield <rob...@openscenegraph.org> > * URL : http://www.openscenegraph.org/ > * License : OpenSceneGraph Public License, OSGPL > Programming Lang: C++ > Description : 3D scene graph C++ framework > > A portable, high level graphics toolkit for the development of high > performance graphics applications such as flight simulators, games, > virtual reality or scientific visualization. Providing an object > orientated framework on top of OpenGL, it frees the developer from > implementing and optimizing low level graphics calls, and provide > many additional utilities for rapid development of graphics > applications. > > This package intends to bring the new stable 3.6 series, replacing 3.4 > and 3.2 already present in the repository.
3.6 should be built from src:openscenegraph and src:openscenegraph-3.4 then removed. Creating a new source package[1] for every new major upstream version is a bad idea for various reasons, including bug handling in the BTS. cu Adrian [1] new binary packages are of course required for libraries when the soname changes -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed