On Wed, Aug 03, 2022 at 10:39:53PM +0200, Sebastian Ramacher wrote:
> Source: mayavi2
> Version: 4.8.0-1
> 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.
Upstream seems to somehow support vtk9:
https://github.com/enthought/mayavi/pull/1159
Trying to build the package in unstable with build + runtime
dependencies changed to python3-vtk9 works, and in the testsuite
this fixes "FAIL: test_basic_vtk" while not causing any regressions.
> Cheers
cu
Adrian
