Control: tags -1 moreinfo On 2022-11-17 21:44:22 +0100, Étienne Mollier wrote: > Package: release.debian.org > Severity: important > X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-...@lists.debian.org > > Dear Release Team, > > I would like to seek advice whether build-depending on gcc-11 > for insighttoolkit4 would be an acceptable tradeoff to maintain > this library in the upcoming bookworm? Even, whether trying to > bring it to bookworm would be acceptable at all? > > The library is not maintained anymore for quite some time, in > favor of it's up-to-date version insighttoolkit5. I also > suspect maintainability of the old version will be a problem > from a security point of view: for instance some un-vendored > libraries went back in the source package after breakages in the > test suite caused by updates in the system libraries. > > However, there are still several reverse dependencies which have > not made the jump to itk-5.y yet, and are currently out of > testing due to depending on packages which are not part of the > testing distribution anymore. Also, I noticed in the RC bug[1] > affecting it that there has been quite some effort from > different parties to try to help bringing it back to testing, > but to no avail. Finally, I had been hoping to keep the library > in a somewhat working condition for downstream users to be able > to migrate somewhat smoothly from itk-4.y to itk-5.y in > bookworm; the latter was not made available in bullseye alas.
Which of the reverse dependencies do you want to see in bookworm? From the two of the three I looked at, they have their own RC bugs and look mostly unmaintained. ants, for example, has a RC bug open from 2017. Cheers > > [1]: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1012950 > > Thank you for your effort in coordinating the construction of > Debian releases! > > Have a nice day, :) > -- > .''`. Étienne Mollier <emoll...@debian.org> > : :' : gpg: 8f91 b227 c7d6 f2b1 948c 8236 793c f67e 8f0d 11da > `. `' sent from /dev/tty1, please excuse my verbosity > `- on air: Symphony X - Charon -- Sebastian Ramacher
