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

[Adrian Bunk]

On Sat, Dec 13, 2025 at 10:51:58AM +0100, Tobias Frost wrote:
> 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.)

I am not a team member, just an observation:

Closest to being a maintainer inside the team would be Anton Gladky
(added to Cc) who hasn't touched the package for 3.5 years.

I'd guess the relevant question is now whether your "offer to help to 
get the package updated" implies that you are willing to become the
maintainer of the package inside the team.

> tobi

cu
Adrian