Hi Peter,
Am Fri, Jul 22, 2022 at 04:36:13AM +0100 schrieb Peter Green:
> vtk7 is one of the (possiblly the) last blockers for the ffmpeg transition
> that is in testing and is not marked for autoremoval.
> The last 7.x upstream release was over 5 years ago. The last vtk7 upload
> by someone listed in "uploaders" was over 2 years ago. Since then the
> package has been kept on life-supportby team-uploads and a NMU.
> ...
There is an ongoing effort to replace vtk7 by vtk9 but as you might
imagine its not that simple.
> The following source packages or the binaries they produce declare
> relationships
> on vtk7 packages that do not have alternatives.
>
> depends and/or build-depends:
> binoculars
> camitk
> dune-grid
> facet-analyser
> gdcm
> mayavi2
> nifti2dicom
> openems
> python-mne
> siconos
> vistrails
> vtk-dicom
There is ongoing work on these packages and if I'm not misleaded there
are bugs filed against all these packages.
> recommends:
> debian-science
I've just replaced the recommends / suggests of vtk7 by vtk9.
> dipy
>
> suggests:
> debian-med
Fixed in Git - I see no need for an upload right now.
> In particular gdcm is a key package due to the fact that opencv build-depends
> on it.
I'm CCing the gdcm bug - the upstream maintainer is just in CC of your
mail.
Kind regards
Andreas.
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