FTGL Transition
So far the FTGL library has only shipped static libraries. Starting from 2.1.3 it will also ship dynamic libraries, and drop the static libftgl_pic.a library. Packages will require minor manual tuning.
Please write to Sam Hocevar <sam@zoy.org> for more information.
Timeline
- April 14, 2008: started working on FTGL
- May 19, 2008: all Debian packages can now be built with the new FTGL packages
- June 9, 2008: contacted all maintainers
- June 11, 2008: reported bugs where necessary
- June 15, 2008: ftgl 2.1.3~rc5 uploaded to unstable
Affected packages
Maintainer: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
- Package: blender
must not build and link with its internal copy of FTGL
must build-depend on libftgl-dev instead of ftgl-dev
- Cyril knows what to do, I'm not touching blender
Maintainer: Guenter Geiger (Debian/GNU) <geiger@debian.org>
- Package: gem
XXX: package does not build in Debian!
must build-depend on libftgl-dev instead of ftgl-dev
Maintainer: Luca Bedogni <me@lucabedogni.it>
- Package: libinstrudeo
must remove patch debian/patches/02-configure.dpatch
must build-depend on libftgl-dev instead of ftgl-dev
should remove /usr/lib/*.la from debian/libinstrudeo-dev.install
REMOVED from Debian
- Package: screenkast
must build-depend on the newer libinstrudeo-dev package
must build-depend on libftgl-dev instead of ftgl-dev
REMOVED from Debian
Maintainer: William Pitcock <nenolod@sacredspiral.co.uk>
- Package: libprojectm
must patch Renderer.hpp, line 24: <FTGL/FTGL.h> becomes <FTGL/ftgl.h>
must remove patch debian/patches/03_cmake_ftgl_pic.dpatch
must build-depend on libftgl-dev instead of ftgl-dev
Maintainer: Ola Lundqvist <opal@debian.org>
- Package: lightspeed
must build-depend on libftgl-dev instead of ftgl-dev
Maintainer: Yann Dirson <dirson@debian.org>
- Package: tulip
must patch package: http://zoy.org/~sam/patches/patch-tulip-ftgl-new.diff
must fix debian/rules: configure with --with-ftgl-includes=-I/usr/include/FTGL --with-ftgl-libs=-lftgl
must build-depend on libftgl-dev instead of ftgl-dev
should not build its internal copy of FTGL
NMU on June 15, 2008
Maintainer: A. Maitland Bottoms <bottoms@debian.org>
- Package: vtk
XXX: package uses its internal copy of FTGL for now
must build-depend on libftgl-dev instead of ftgl-dev