Re: [Nel] Debian GNU/Linux NeL packages

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Loic Dachary <address@hidden> wrote:
>       Dependency is right. But you'll have to get the snowballs-data
> package from http://people.debian.org/~loic/debian/sid4.2/ for now. 
> I should have mentionned it in the original post, sorry about that.

Hmmm, I can only find version 0.2.0 of the snowballs-data there but not
the required 0.2.1.

>       The reason why the snowballs-data package was not uploaded on
> http://nongnu.org/ is because the source data files are dependent on
> proprietary software (3DSMax). It is a rule of the GNU project
> (providing the Savannah infrastructure, ie http://nongnu.org/) that
> all software and data provided on it does not depend on proprietary
> software. I'm working to provide an alternate set of data for
> snowballs that is based on Blender which will be released under the
> GNU GPL October 13.

Nice to hear!

I assume with "alternate set of data" you mean the current data "ported
over" to Blender, right?

Regards,
Lars