New cycle view is missing in package

This is doable now that we have openimageio in quantal. I did a test rebuild of blender 2.63a-1 from debian unstable for precise with cycles enabled, and it seems to be working fine (at ppa:jconti/testing )

The problem is that openimageio currently only builds for i386/amd64 while blender builds for all of our architectures. This is being worked on in debian ( http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=658075 ) and 1.0.3+dfsg0-1 improves the situation.

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

Is it not possible to create two builds of the package? One with cycles enabled for i386/amd64 and one without cycles for all platforms (or optionally for everything other than i386/amd64). It's a shame to see 12.10 getting released without cycles.

This is important, because cycles is not just an optional enhancement. It changes all the material properties in the model. In other words, the content of blend files needs to be developed according to the renderer (cycles or legacy) that will be used.

All new development, both of blender but also of scenes and models developed by users, will be for cycles. This makes a blender build without cycles almost useless for any new work.

There is a ppa with weekly trunk builds, and this uses cycles, but for those who want release-train code there is no "just works" option.

Also, I note the upstream debian bug was closed as fixed on Mon 23 Jul...

(and there's also a new blender release since then, but that's a separate matter)

blender (2.66a-1ubuntu1) raring; urgency=low

  * Resynchronize with Debian (LP: #1076930, #1089256, #1052743, #999024,
    #1122888, #1147084)
  * debian/control:
    - Lower build-depends on libavcodec-dev since we're not
      doing the libav9 transition in Ubuntu yet