Bug#1011549: openrocket needs newer jogl

tony mancill tmancill at debian.org
Sat Mar 11 04:28:19 GMT 2023


Hello Pierre,

On Fri, Mar 10, 2023 at 10:23:53PM +0100, Pierre Gruet wrote:
> Hi tony,
> 
> On Sun, 12 Feb 2023 10:15:35 -0800 tony mancill <tmancill at debian.org> wrote:
> >
> > Okay, first the good news. There are upstream tags for 2.4.0. I have
> > started working on adapting the sequence of debian/patches against the
> > new release.
> >
> > But in addition to not yet being done with that, it didn't seem prudent
> > to try to push this into bookwork at the last minute, and that wouldn't
> > have given the reverse dependencies any time to react anyway. So I am
> > going to work towards an upload to experimental soon, and then we can
> > aim for getting this into unstable/testing after the freeze.
> 
> I fully understand your position. However I recently looked at scilab, a
> rdep of jogl, and saw it is severely broken -- although a key package, so it
> will be shipped in Bookworm anyway. Scilab cannot be run in GUI mode, only
> in command-line mode with plots not working (after some tweaking I am
> working on).
> 
> Locally I tried to update jogl to version 2.4.0 (I had not seen you were
> working on it, sorry), and to do so I also had to update its dependency
> gluegen2 to version 2.4.0 (possibly you have already seen it), and then the
> command-line mode would allow one to make plots.

Yes, I saw the upload of gluegen2.  Thank you for doing that and need to
apologize!

> Given the Hard freeze begins in two days, I will only touch scilab and not
> jogl nor gluegen2 right now.
> 
> It you want, I can upload my changes to gluegen2 and jogl2 to experimental
> in the upcoming days. But if you prefer doing it yourself, please tell me
> and do so when you are ready :)

Please feel free to go ahead with your uploads.  Working code, made
available to all, is what's important.  And there are plenty of other
packages for me to work on.  :)

Best regards,
tony
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