I got the following mail from the debian maintainer. It seems to be a licensing issue. Maybe we could have an ubuntu specific patch that includes the cg plugin?
---- AFAIK libCg does not meet Debian Free Software Guidelines, so it has to be distributed under non-free (or even installed by users independently, I am not sure). Consequently, the cg-plugin has to live in the "contrib" area, because it depends on non-free software. If cg-plugin is not separated, then all of OGRE would have to be in contrib, which would be far from ideal. Additionally, last time that I checked (and it was not long ago) the packages of libCg in Debian were very outdated, I am not sure if it's because lack of will or because a change in license upstream (or other technical reasons) makes it difficult to have it updated. It can also happen that because libCg or other libraries OGRE cannot be updated to newer versions, because it depends on newer versions of those libraries. There are other nasty licensing and code duplication issues with the package right now that even risk to have it released in the next stable (samples will have to be removed, probably, due to the media files not having proper licenses). All of this only puts more and more burden on the shoulders of the maintainers, even to a point that the package in Debian (and Ubuntu) was stuck for a year with 1.6 series after 1.7 had been released, the package was basically not maintained until I took over: [2011-02-06] Accepted 1.7.1-1 in unstable (low) (Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo) [2009-10-01] Accepted 1.6.4.dfsg1-1 in unstable (low) (Michael Koch) So basically, all of those reasons is why I am not inclined to include Cg plugin into the package any time soon, no. Having it will be a considerable burden to take while keeping the package in good shape, so the alternative might be to not have OGRE packages at all. There's a quick solution for those interested in the Cg plugin: recompile the source .deb package while having libCg installed; maybe have to tweak a couple of lines in debian/rules, but it should be -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1037335 Title: CG Plugin is missing To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ogre-1.8/+bug/1037335/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs