Bug#694879: Blender still missing Collada support, one year after opencollada was packaged

[ian_bruce at mail.ru]

It has now been over a year since the opencollada-dev package became
available in the Debian archive.

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=694932

https://packages.debian.org/stretch/opencollada-dev

Is there any remaining reason why the Blender package should not be
linked against it? Blender is supposed to have built-in support for
Collada.

https://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc%3A2.6/Manual/Data_System/Files/Import/COLLADA

Is it not expected that anybody will actually want to use this software?
If so, why was the effort made to package either OpenCOLLADA or Blender?