Steve, This is great ! Thanks for your efforts on packaging ITK.
On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 10:53 PM, Steve M. Robbins <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > As some of you know ITK, the Insight Toolkit, version 4.0.0 was > released last month [1]. This is a major update from the previous > version 3.20.1, and upstream deliberately broke the API in certain > cases [2]. > > As such, I think it would be a disservice to our users to force an > abrupt transition by uploading ITK 4 and removing ITK 3. Instead, I > propose to keep ITK 3.20.1 in Debian and upload a new source package, > insighttoolkit4 (or maybe itk4?). > Yes, that's a great plan. > The existing binary packages already carry the major version > (e.g. libinsightoolkit3-dev) and so can coexist with > libinsightoolkit4-dev and the like in the repository (I haven't made > up my mind about co-installability). > > I am in the process of getting a clean build of ITK 4 locally. I > think I should succeed this week, so I'd appreciate feedback on the > plan before I upload this weekend. > Please let me know if you find any obstacles. As maintainer of the upstream project I will be more than happy to help solve any difficulty. Thanks Luis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CABAUzPqmQQROMKA6Q2fQArCp5bv5HO554Yi-qnA5_umizSOW=w...@mail.gmail.com
