Package: vtk
Version: 5.8.0-12
Severity: serious

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Julien Cristau <jcris...@debian.org>
Date: Tue, May 29, 2012 at 10:14 AM
Subject: Re: vtk's tiff build-dep
To: Mathieu Malaterre <ma...@debian.org>
Cc: Steve Robbins <s...@debian.org>, v...@packages.debian.org,
debian-science <debian-scie...@lists.debian.org>


On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 10:08:41 +0200, Mathieu Malaterre wrote:

> Salut Julien,
>
> On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 11:45 AM, Julien Cristau <jcris...@debian.org> wrote:
> > it seems you recently switched vtk to build-depend on libtiff5-dev.
> > This is discouraged at this point.  What is the reason for that change?
>
> I needed to get itk to compile with libtiff5-dev to handle large tiff.
> I could not get itk to use libtiff5-dev until vtk switches also to
> libtiff5-dev.
>
Can't that wait until after wheezy?

> As a side note, I also switch VXL to use libtiff5-dev, is this also an issue ?
>
Seeing how libvxl1.14 has 0 reverse dependencies in squeeze i don't care
all that much.

Cheers,
Julien



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