On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 5:48 AM, Steve M. Robbins <st...@sumost.ca> wrote: > On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 08:18:04AM +0200, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: >> VTK ships a convenient FTGL 1.32 version (April 23 2002), > > I guess the question really is twofold: > > 1. Are there any patches to 1.32 in the VTK tree?
no. I do not believe upstream has worked on using a new ftgl. >> while debian >> archive contains 2.1.3 since 2008-05-03 >> The API changed a bit. > > 2. Is upgrading the lib going to break any hidden assumptions made by VTK? likely/maybe ? > Certainly it's good to remove duplicate library copies, but we should > be careful not to introduce regressions. If this effort is successful, > please send it upstream; c.f. http://www.vtk.org/Bug/view.php?id=3824 As said previously, I believe #506992 is starting to block other packages, so it would be nice to make some progress on this. My suggestion was to remove convenient sqlite copy, and use a lintian override for ftgl and re-upload. Denis, did you made any progress on ftgl patch ? Do you have any comment on Steve's points ? Thanks all, -- Mathieu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
