Thanks Gert for the ping; hopfully they'll get to it soon. On a related note, VTK has bumped its version to 9.0.0 in master [1], so it looks like soon we'll have to catch up with three (!) major versions. (Perhaps we'll have to rethink how we package vtk for debian.)
Cheers, Nico [1] https://gitlab.kitware.com/vtk/vtk/commit/43ce9dd8f81c2275515f84e7ce2395d8812dcd0d On Thu, Nov 9, 2017 at 10:44 AM Gert Wollny <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello Nico, > > Am Dienstag, den 07.11.2017, 13:12 +0000 schrieb Nico Schlömer: > > VTK7 is in NEW for two months again with no indication of when it > > will be through. > Well it is a big package, and it came also with an ITP. > > > I need VTK for my work and would like to start tweaking the package, > > especially since xdmf3 landed in d/copyright::Files-Excluded. (No > > idea why.) > > This is there for some time already, longer then I have been touching > this package, but for some reason it is not enabled to use the system > version neither, I think there is some bug. > > > I'm not sure if it's a good idea to mess with the package while in > > NEW though. What do you usually do in such situations? > If I just need the packages for myself, then I create a local version > that might be uploaded as soon as the pakage has cleared the NEW > pipeline. > > Anyway, I'll ping the FTP-master that rejected it the first time. > > Best, > Gert > >
