blender : update to 2.73a : any possibility?

[Mayuresh Kathe]

On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 06:52:43PM +0100, Rene Engelhard wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> [ I am not the blender maintainer ]
> 
> On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 11:13:22PM +0530, Mayuresh Kathe wrote:
> > hi,
> > 
> > blender has been updated to version 2.73a while the repos still are
> > stuck on 2.70a, any hope for a change?
> 
> Wrong.
> 
>  blender | 2.72.b+dfsg0-3   | jessie       | source, amd64, arm64, armel, armhf, i386, kfreebsd-amd64, kfreebsd-i386, mips, mipsel, powerpc, ppc64el, s390x
>  blender | 2.72.b+dfsg0-3   | sid          | source, amd64, arm64, armel, armhf, hurd-i386, i386, kfreebsd-amd64, kfreebsd-i386, mips, mipsel, powerpc, ppc64el, s390x
>  blender | 2.73+dfsg0-1     | experimental | source, mips
>  blender | 2.73.a+dfsg0-1   | experimental | source, amd64, arm64, armel, armhf, hurd-i386, i386, kfreebsd-amd64, kfreebsd-i386, mipsel, powerpc, ppc64el, s390x
> 
> And wheezy (if you mean that) has an even older one
> 
>  blender | 2.63a-1+deb7u1   | wheezy       | source, amd64, armel, armhf, i386, ia64, kfreebsd-amd64, kfreebsd-i386, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390, s390x, sparc
> 
> So where do you see 2.70a?
> 
> Besides that: stable (wheezy right now) won't ever be updated with a newer upstream and jessie/sid are "stuck" because of the freeze/upcoming jessie release.
> 
> experimental *has* 2.73a. I'd bet it will enter unstable/sid soon as
> soon as jessie is released and the freeze is over.

dang, there has been a mix-up, i am running "ubuntu server 14.10".  :)
wonder how those folks got hold of blender 2.70a, see below;

Package: blender
Priority: optional
Section: universe/graphics
Installed-Size: 67365
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <ubuntu-devel-discuss at lists.ubuntu.com>
Original-Maintainer: Debian Multimedia Maintainers <pkg-multimedia-maintainers at lists.alioth.debian.org>
Architecture: amd64
Version: 2.70a-2ubuntu3
Depends: blender-data (= 2.70a-2ubuntu3), fonts-droid, libjs-jquery, libavcodec56 (>= 6:11~beta1) | libavcodec-extra-56 (>= 6:11~beta1), libavdevice55 (>= 6:11~beta1), libavformat56 (>= 6:11~beta1), libavutil54 (>= 6:11~beta1), libboost-filesystem1.55.0, libboost-locale1.55.0, libboost-system1.55.0, libboost-thread1.55.0, libc6 (>= 2.15), libfftw3-double3, libfreetype6 (>= 2.2.1), libgcc1 (>= 1:4.1.1), libgl1-mesa-glx | libgl1, libglew1.10 (>= 1.10.0), libglu1-mesa | libglu1, libgomp1 (>= 4.9), libilmbase6 (>= 1.0.1), libjack-jackd2-0 (>= 1.9.5~dfsg-14) | libjack-0.116, libjpeg8 (>= 8c), libopenal1 (>= 1.14), libopencolorio1, libopenexr6 (>= 1.6.1), libopenimageio1.3, libopenjpeg5 (>= 1.3+dfsg), libpng12-0 (>= 1.2.13-4), libpython3.4 (>= 3.4~b1), libsdl1.2debian (>= 1.2.11), libsndfile1 (>= 1.0.20), libspnav0 (>= 0.2.1), libstdc++6 (>= 4.9), libswscale3 (>= 6:11~beta1), libtiff5 (>= 4.0.3), libx11-6, libxi6, libxxf86vm1, zlib1g (>= 1:1.2.3.4)
Suggests: yafaray-exporter
Breaks: yafaray-exporter (<< 0.1.2+really0.1.2~beta5-1)
Filename: pool/universe/b/blender/blender_2.70a-2ubuntu3_amd64.deb
Size: 20348398
MD5sum: 36ba137688eeeee41a06b1ccf2d6dd61
SHA1: 6011d6fd27bf004112edc2f992a02e32759f85e7
SHA256: 95a3b28d0cd576b28ee188d4ff05029a66665af2f709cf94822686572c2497c2
Description-en: Very fast and versatile 3D modeller/renderer
 Blender is an integrated 3d suite for modelling, animation, rendering,
 post-production, interactive creation and playback (games). Blender has its
 own particular user interface, which is implemented entirely in OpenGL and
 designed with speed in mind. Python bindings are available for scripting;
 import/export features for popular file formats like 3D Studio and Wavefront
 Obj are implemented as scripts by the community. Stills, animations, models
 for games or other third party engines and interactive content in the form of
 a standalone binary are common products of Blender use.
Description-md5: 90b4f36fda45432800e6a278de5b06b4
Homepage: http://www.blender.org/
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu
Task: ubuntustudio-video, ubuntustudio-graphics


best,

~mayuresh