Bug#1121912: Ogre3d threatened with removal from testing, through freeimage

[Tobias Frost]

On Sat, 2025-12-13 at 09:57 +0100, Antoine Le Gonidec wrote:
> freeimage is going to get removed from testing:
> https://bugs.debian.org/1121912
> 
> This is going to cause a removal of Ogre3d, that build-depends on it.
> And as a cascading effet, this should lead to a removal of mygui and
> OpenMW.
> 
> Anyone here is in contact with Ogre3d upstream,
> to ensure they are aware of the poor state of freeimage and plan to
> migrate away from it?

/me got also several mails about future removals, noteable opencascade
which would drop a lot of software I'm caring about (e.g freecad,
slic3r-prusa etc.)

It looks like that there has been a fork of freeimage,
https://github.com/agruzdev/FreeImageRe that might be able to close the
gap a bit, there are recent commits and also a MR targeting a few of
the open CVEs.

(As science-team member, I offer to help to get the package updated.)

-- 
tobi