Povray 3.1 (a raytracer) has been released, and I've had a request to package it. Unfortunately, 3.1 deleted experimental features in 3.0 (halos), and does not have the patches I applied to the 3.0 codebase (PVM, isosurfaces). Some of the new 3.1 features are already in the patched Debian 3.0 package (macros). What I think we should do is create new Povray 3.1 packages, but keep the 3.0 packages as well. The announcement on povray.org suggests this (keeping the 3.0 binaries around for legacy scenes). update-alternatives entries already exist for the povray binaries, as there are 2 different povray 3.0 binaries (a bare one and a feature-laden one). I don't need any of the new features in 3.1, so I won't be using that version for some time (until isosurfaces and PVM support in 3.1 exist). We need another maintainer for 3.1. Anyone want this popular non-DFSG (source available) package? I plan to keep the 3.0 package.
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