Blender 3D losing support for older CUDA

[Vincent Cheng]

Hi Sofus,

On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 6:22 PM, Sofus Rose <sofusrose at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear package maintainers,
>
> I work a lot with Blender 3D, enough that it is of interest for me to
> build the latest development releases from git. However, recently
> they've decided to pull support for the older versions of CUDA, which is
> used in GPU based rendering.
> http://www.blendernation.com/2014/08/25/developer-meeting-notes-august-24-2014/
>
> It is of course possible to manually build it, but I just wanted to make
> whomever it may concern aware that the current version on the
> repositories, 5.5, is outdated enough that upstream projects like
> Blender that use CUDA are beginning to pull support for it.

There's already a wishlist bug for a newer version of
nvidia-cuda-toolkit, #751522. My response ([1], which basically
amounts to a request for help) to this hasn't changed;
nvidia-cuda-toolkit 6.x is only going to be uploaded once someone
works on packaging it. That "someone" isn't going to be me, given that
I have no interest in CUDA myself and I'm already overloaded with
Debian-related work as-is.

Regards,
Vincent

[1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=757961#20