Re: VTK7 in unstable, future of vtk6

2018-04-13 Thread Anton Gladky
I would try to migrate all VTK6-dependent packages onto VTK7 if it is possible. And remove VTK6 from the archive till the buster release. Regards Anton 2018-04-13 23:41 GMT+02:00 Kyle Edwards : > On 04/13/2018 11:01 AM, Sébastien Villemot wrote: >> >> My understanding

Re: VTK7 in unstable, future of vtk6

2018-04-13 Thread Kyle Edwards
On 04/13/2018 11:01 AM, Sébastien Villemot wrote: My understanding is that Gert intends to drop java, -doc and -example from the VTK 6 packages, and not on newer ones.. Ah, OK, that makes sense. I misinterpreted it as "things that were in VTK6 that will be dropped on VTK7." P.S.: please

Re: VTK7 in unstable, future of vtk6

2018-04-12 Thread Kyle Edwards
Gert, (VTK upstream here, for context for those who don't know me.) I'm glad to hear about this, looking at the VTK 7 packaging will help me in my own efforts to package VTK 9. I'm somewhat sad to hear that you're dropping Java, -doc, and -example. What are the challenges you're facing with

VTK7 in unstable, future of vtk6

2018-04-12 Thread Gert Wollny
Dear all, I just uploaded vtk7 to unstable and I think it is time to think about what should remain of vtk6. IMHO we should drop java, tk/tcl language bindings, remove the -doc and -example packages and only provide the library and -dev packages, and the python2 bindings (for now), because