> or you can push changes to make > it python3, and then we resolve the conflicts while it is in > experimental.
I'll do that tomorrow. Cheers, Nico On Tue, Jul 11, 2017 at 10:19 PM Gert Wollny <[email protected]> wrote: > Am Dienstag, den 11.07.2017, 20:02 +0000 schrieb Nico Schlömer: > > > However, for the name xxxx-vtk we have packages in oldstable > > > that refers to the vtk5 python and tcl bindings. > > > > Ah right, I faintly remember that too. Are those ever going to go > > away? > I think one can actually set the conflicts and replaces properly to > allow upgrading oldstable-stable-buster, and AFAIK a direct upgrade > from oldstable to testing doesn't need to be supported. > > > > Indeed. It may be a pick-your-poison situation: Either don't have any > > Python 3 interfaces, or get conflicting packages. (The egomaniac that > > I am I'd vote for the latter.) Anyhow, we can try and consolidate > > those two. Not sure if possible. > I had a look through the conflicting files, and for pyhon there were > not many (pvtk and pvtkython come to mind). > > > > Gert, are you already done with your iteration on the package? If > > yes, and the coinstallability is the only remaining issue, we could > > start working at this in the vtk8 repo. > I am done, I could upload with python2, or you can push changes to make > it python3, and then we resolve the conflicts while it is in > experimental. > > thanks, > Gert > >

