bump version to 1.11 in ubuntu 15.04?

[arturo]

Debian Experimental already has 1.11 which introduces support for OpenGL 4.5.

[Hans Joachim Desserud (hjd)]

I did some research and found that Debian started (or at least investigated) a transition for the next version of this package. This means that they rebuild all packages which depend on GLEW (either directly or indirectly) to make sure they still work after the upgrade. Though they are currently in a freeze preparing for their next release, so it looks like transitions has been put on hold for a while. See https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=760849 or https://release.debian.org/transitions/html/auto-glew.html for more information.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

The new version is still in Debian experimental, seems like a non trivial one which probably needs testing and coordination

[Nigel Stewart (nigels)]

I'm the upstream maintainer of GLEW, my comment is that although a lot of packages depend on GLEW, the vast majority of changes are fully backwards compatible. 1.11.0 is itself nearly one year old and is two versions behind. Fortunately for me I'm not having too much traffic about obsolete bugs, but it's fairly discouraging to see such a delay between fresh new OpenGL functionality and widespread availability to GLEW-based apps. I do think it would be good to see something newer than 1.10.0 show up in Ubuntu 16.04....

- Nigel

[Matteo F. Vescovi (mfvescovi)]

I'm working on testing GLEW 1.13.0 against its 63 reverse dependencies right now and I really hope to be able to upload it to Debian unstable/sid within the end of this month. So probably Ubuntu 16.04 should ship 1.13.0 ;-)

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

@Matteo, thanks for the status update, indeed having the new version in 16.04 would be nice, we are going to watch for that upload to sid and follow with the transition

[Matteo F. Vescovi (mfvescovi)]

FYI, it's done... GLEW 1.13.0 is building right now on Debian's buildd infrastructure.

Have a look at:

  https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=glew

Cheers.

[arturo (arturo-openframeworks)]

thanks so much for looking into this!

[Nigel Stewart (nigels)]

Awesome. You rock!

- Nigel

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/glew/1.13.0-2