Packaged release is many years old and no longer supported

[Joepal]

The "alpha6" release is many years old (it was released 2011), and has not been supported for a long time. No modern day assets are usable in this release. MakeHuman has since had several stable releases and even changed the source code language.

In order to help transitioning to a post-jurassic version, I have now updated https://launchpad.net/makehuman with current code, as well as built functional sample debs, which are available in the same location. These debs works as intended for me, on 14.04.

Thus requesting a version bump to the code which is available at the above.

No compiling is needed (MakeHuman is now pure python), so making debs largely consists of putting files in the correct place in the file system hierarchy.

I am the official build maintainer for MakeHuman, and requests for more information or other support concerning the above can be sent to me.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Duststorm (duststorm-design)]

I believe the update of the MakeHuman package would also resolve the other bugs posted on this issue tracker.

[Duststorm (duststorm-design)]

What is the status on this?
Is the update still planned for Vivid?
It would be great to hear from Ubuntu packagers about this, eg feedback on the packages at https://launchpad.net/makehuman

Is there any way in which the MakeHuman developers can help speed up the process?

Thanks.

[Joepal (joepal1976)]

Relevant debian bugs concerning the version currently in the repo, demonstrating the need to do something about the current state of affairs:

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=781306
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=781317
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=751755

I have started to recommend that the package be removed altogether if it can't be version bumped. No package at all is vastly much better than a four year old alpha.

[Logan Rosen (logan)]

This bug was fixed in the package makehuman - 1.0.2-7

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makehuman (1.0.2-7) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Adding missing dependencies to run makehuman (Closes: #785784).

 -- Muammar El Khatib <email address hidden> Wed, 20 May 2015 10:17:25 +0200

makehuman (1.0.2-6) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Replaces also makehuman-data when upgrading from previous version in the
    archive.

 -- Muammar El Khatib <email address hidden> Mon, 18 May 2015 21:30:03 +0200

makehuman (1.0.2-5) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Replacing whole package when version lower than 1.0.2 is installed to
    avoid upgrade problems (Closes: #781306).
  * Makehuman is now mainly based on Python, so the Usertags: ld-as-needed
    does affect this package anymore (Closes: #683920).

 -- Muammar El Khatib <email address hidden> Sun, 17 May 2015 10:56:47 +0200

makehuman (1.0.2-4) unstable; urgency=medium

  * assets_base_1_0b.zip have been added (Closes: #785164).

 -- Muammar El Khatib <email address hidden> Sun, 17 May 2015 00:56:36 +0200

makehuman (1.0.2-3) experimental; urgency=medium

  * Command line arguments are now accepted by makehuman script. Thanks to
    Jonas Hauquier for reporting this (Closes: #785162).
  * In this experimental revision, a strategy to install the assets is
    implemented.
  * Problems with ethnics should be resolved in this new upstream version
    (Closes: #781317).
  * Improved debian/copyright file.

 -- Muammar El Khatib <email address hidden> Wed, 13 May 2015 11:39:37 +0200

makehuman (1.0.2-2) experimental; urgency=medium

  * debian/control:
    + makehuman depends explicitly on makehuman-data (>= 1.0.2) to force in
    the upgrade to install the correct -data directory.

 -- Muammar El Khatib <email address hidden> Tue, 12 May 2015 19:03:22 +0200

makehuman (1.0.2-1) experimental; urgency=medium

  * New upstream version (Closes: #751755).
  * Bump Standards-Version to 3.9.6.
  * debian/control:
    + makehuman now is built as `all`.
  * debian/watch file added.
  * debian/copyright: no longer list the Debian maintainers involved in the
    creation of the package.

 -- Muammar El Khatib <email address hidden> Sun, 10 May 2015 20:50:23 +0200