Upgrading to a newer upstream release:
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 * Repack according to the last lines in debian/copyright.

 * Update portability/platform detection patch:
    - Finding SConscript files is a good start.
    - Patch where sys.platform is used, not where env['OURPLATFORM']
      is, since it's already substituted as seen in SConstruct file.
    - Also to be checked, scripts under release/scripts, grepping for
      both sys.platform and linux2 might be sufficient.

 * Some other C/C++ files need patching too, in particular to support
   GNU/kFreeBSD. Trying a build on {io,asdfasdf}.debian.net and
   patching accordingly is the way to go.


Getting upstream sources from $VCS:
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 * Blender is maintained in an SVN repository available at:
     https://svn.blender.org/svnroot/bf-blender/trunk/

 * Since SVN isn't really my cup of tea, I'm using the git-svn
   repository kindly hosted by Sam Hocevar at:
     git://git.zoy.org/blender.git
   It is particularly helpful for upstream snapshots, since upstream
   tends to publish binaries rather than source tarballs.

 -- Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>, Thu, 24 Dec 2009 14:23:33 +0100