Bug 2292286

Summary: Blender isn't compiled with Collada (.dae) importation support.
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Mr. Beedell, Roke Julian Lockhart (RJLB) <8ru2u4gz>
Component: blenderAssignee: Luya Tshimbalanga <luya_tfz>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 40CC: code, design-devel, epel-packagers-sig, kwizart, luya_tfz, negativo17
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Hardware: x86_64   
OS: Linux   
URL: https://blender.stackexchange.com/revisions/162/1#:~:text=make%20sure%20it%20has%20WITH_OPENCOLLADA%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20ON
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Description Mr. Beedell, Roke Julian Lockhart (RJLB) 2024-06-13 21:35:01 UTC 
Collada (.dae) importation support isn't present in https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/rpminfo?rpmID=38836540. [A Blender StackExchange answer](https://blender.stackexchange.com/revisions/162/1#:~:text=make%20sure%20it%20has%20WITH_OPENCOLLADA%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20ON) explains that it must be added at compilation time:

> Your build probably wasn't compiled with COLLADA support, otherwise it should be there.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Install https://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/40/Spins/x86_64/iso/Fedora-KDE-Live-x86_64-40-1.14.iso
2.  Install https://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org//packages/blender/4.1.1/7.fc40/x86_64/blender-4.1.1-7.fc40.x86_64.rpm from https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/rpminfo?rpmID=38836540
3.  File
4.  Import
Actual Results:  
Collada (.dae) importation support isn't present in the context menu submenu.

Expected Results:  
It should be.
Comment 1 Mr. Beedell, Roke Julian Lockhart (RJLB) 2024-06-13 21:36:30 UTC 
Created attachment 2037186 [details]
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Comment 2 Luya Tshimbalanga 2024-06-28 03:45:14 UTC 
Hello, 
Starting from Fedora 40,openCOLLADA is retired from the repository (https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/openCOLLADA/c/8fbd0a8eee8d565374333b75c11c6be5cdc60a7d?branch=rawhide) for nearly a year due to lack of maintenance from upstream and its dependency from pcre 1 (https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/openCOLLADA).
For that reason, we will not fix the issue. Should you like to take over that package and un-retire it, feel free to reopen this report and we will enable .dae support again.
Comment 3 Mr. Beedell, Roke Julian Lockhart (RJLB) 2024-06-28 13:49:19 UTC 
(In reply to Luya Tshimbalanga from comment #2)
> Hello, 
> Starting from Fedora 40,openCOLLADA is retired from the repository
> (https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/openCOLLADA/c/
> 8fbd0a8eee8d565374333b75c11c6be5cdc60a7d?branch=rawhide) for nearly a year
> due to lack of maintenance from upstream and its dependency from pcre 1
> (https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/openCOLLADA).
> For that reason, we will not fix the issue. Should you like to take over
> that package and un-retire it, feel free to reopen this report and we will
> enable .dae support again.

That's very reasonable. Thank you for the explanation. I'd love to assist, but I've not the skill, so I can't.
Comment 4 Luya Tshimbalanga 2024-06-29 00:34:05 UTC 
Alternatively, you can use the F39 version which supports openCOLLADA. We will update that version to 4.2 as the last stable release with such support for Fedora 38.