On Sat, Jan 7, 2012 at 2:08 PM, Steve M. Robbins <st...@sumost.ca> wrote: > On Sat, Jan 07, 2012 at 10:22:36AM +0100, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > >> Really it boils down to two things: >> - What is upstream position on this ? If upstream really do want to >> release paraview on fixed schedule, with backward compatible code so >> that people can build paraview with the latest stable vtk. Then I >> would say, go for it. debian/paraview will be a >> 'paraview-with-stable-vtk' package. > >> This is of course my point of view, and I am open to others. > > I agree with Mathieu's analysis. > > My opinion is that the most fruitful path is to open a dialog with > upstream with the objective that Paraview be distributed with a > build-time option to use a "system VTK" and obtaining their buy-in to > support it. >
I agree. It would be great to have a supported USE_SYSTEM_VTK option in Paraview. In that case Paraview could use the same stable VTK library as all the other projects (~20 in Debian). I will patch Debian's VTK package if necessary to make this happen. Patches are welcome. Thanks -Dominique -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
