New version freeglut 3.0.0

[Nicholas Guriev]

Hello!

New version of freeglut has been released two years ago (!). I prepared a patch to update the package. Could you review it and upload the new version?

I'm attaching patch to debian folder. You have to download and unpack the new upstream version via uscan or from official web-site. I did it to reduce file size.

I already sent my patch to Debian, but there is no reaction on it. Debian Maintainer told that there were some problems with dependencies[1], but unfortunately he didn't indicate what dependencies were.

But in spite of that, I hope it's possible to upload the new package to Ubuntu 17.10.

[1]: https://bugs.debian.org/859687

[Jeremy Bícha (jbicha)]

"yade compiled fine, but
crashed just after the start. It means that each package should
not only be recompiled but also started to be sure we don`t break
many installations."

Are you interested in doing that? If not, it might be best to just wait until Debian is ready to make that transition.

[Simon Quigley (tsimonq2)]

This should be done in Debian, not Ubuntu. Please continue your work in the linked bug report.

Unsubscribing ~ubuntu-sponsors as the patch shouldn't be sponsored to Ubuntu.

[Hans Joachim Desserud (hjd)]

Looks like the new version has been synced from Debian and is currently in lunar-proposed (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/freeglut/3.4.0-1)