On Thu, Sep 1, 2022 at 10:56 PM Adrian Bunk <b...@debian.org> wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 03, 2022 at 10:42:08PM +0200, Sebastian Ramacher wrote: > > Source: siconos > > Version: 4.3.1+dfsg-2 > > Severity: serious > > X-Debbugs-Cc: sramac...@debian.org > > Tags: sid bookworm > > Control: block 1016597 by -1 > > User: gl...@debian.org > > Usertags: vtk6_vtk7_removal > > > > Based on #1013156 and similar bugs: > > > > Dear maintainer, > > > > Debian archive has now three major versions of the VTK (The > > Visualization Toolkit) package: vtk6, vtk7 and vtk9. Old vesions > > (vtk6 and vtk7) are not supported by upstream and the package itself > > is not easy for the mainance. > > > > We aim to drop old and deprecated version vtk6 and vtk7 packages before > > the freeze of the Debian 12 Bookworm. Your package depends on vtk6 or > > vtk7. Thus we ask you to migrate it to the latest vtk9 package. > > Two observations regarding the usage of VTK in siconos: > > There is WITH_VTK in siconos that does not seem to build with VTK 9, > but it's anyway not enabled. > > The only current usage of VTK is python3-vtk7 in siconos-mechanics-tools. > This might need upstrream fixes like > https://github.com/siconos/siconos/pull/437 > > > Cheers
Thank you Adrian. I have an update to the package for a newer upstream version that has been under construction for a while, but I haven't been available until recently to work on it more. I'll try to get this done soon. Steve
