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Mike C wrote:
> I believe the problem is that the POV-Ray redistribution licence is
> _slightly_ incompatable with the DFSG [Debian Free Software Guidelines] --
> which makes distribution slightly difficult; haven't you noticed how there
> isn't a pov-ray package for Debian that is any newer than 3.5? Debian
> _does_ have a tendency to try and maintain patches and build it's own
> packages from source...
Actually, the reason seems to be more the lack of a competent maintainer
with sufficient time. For example the "POV-Ray 3.5" Debian distributes
contains broken patches and untested code. And before that they distributed
(and still do it seems) a completely outdated POV-Ray 3.0 with completely
obsolete patches added to it, i.e. the macro patch - obsolete since POV-Ray
3.1 and not even remotely compatible with any official version of POV-Ray.
In short, the POV-Ray versions Debian distributes are basically useless.
Unfortunately, pointing this out to the current Debian maintainer (see the
bug reports) had no effect whatsoever :-(
As such, it can only be recommended to use the official POV-Ray rather than
the broken versions Debian distributes, even in case of POV-Ray 3.5 or
POV-Ray 3.0!
Thorsten
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Thorsten Froehlich
e-mail: mac### [at] povray org
I am a member of the POV-Ray Team.
Visit POV-Ray on the web: http://www.povray.org
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