On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 10:58 AM, Mathieu Malaterre <mathieu.malate...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 2:43 PM, Sylvestre Ledru <sylves...@debian.org> wrote: >> Le lundi 29 août 2011 à 13:31 +0100, Alastair McKinstry a écrit : >>> On 2011-08-29 07:14, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: >>> > On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 4:35 AM, Steve M. Robbins<st...@sumost.ca> wrote: >>> >> I think the rest of this thread got off onto a tangent. In my mind, >>> >> the germane question is not why Paraview embeds a patched VTK source >>> >> tree but, rather: why is the paraview binary package now installing >>> >> the VTK tools like vtkWrapPython? >>> > Indeed, that's the actual issue. Thanks Steve. >>> > >>> >> Why does a running paraview binary need vtkWrapPython? >>> > That was also my initial question. >>> > >>> >> Can it be stuck into /usr/lib/paraview to avoid the conflict? >>> > I believe the only outstanding issue is that VTK 5.8 is not released >>> > yet. Therefore vtkWrapPython* tools from ParaView 3.10 are much more >>> > advanced (more options) than that of VTK 5.6. >>> I am also awaiting VTK 5.8 for VisIt packaging. Perhaps we should consider >>> doing an vtk5.8 package in experimental, to discover issues and report them >>> ahead of time to VTK / VisIT / Paraview developers ? >>> >> Good idea. >> Are you volunteering for it? :) > > I'll do it. Meanwhile could someone please NMU vtk-5.6 with the proper > fix and fix for lintian.
vtk 5.8 has been uploaded to my public space on vasks: https://alioth.debian.org/~malat-guest/vtk/ I could not push to mentors for some reason. This is a /minimal/ package, I did not turn any new option on, this should only serve for migration testing. Enjoy -- Mathieu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
