Package: libvtk6-dev Version: 6.1.0+dfsg2-4 Severity: important It does not make much sense to ship python files within the -dev package:
$ links -dump https://packages.debian.org/sid/amd64/libvtk6-dev/filelist [...] /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/python2.7/site-packages/vtk/__init__.py /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/python2.7/site-packages/vtk/gtk/GtkGLExtVTKRenderWindow.py /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/python2.7/site-packages/vtk/gtk/GtkGLExtVTKRenderWindowInteractor.py /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/python2.7/site-packages/vtk/gtk/GtkVTKRenderWindow.py /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/python2.7/site-packages/vtk/gtk/GtkVTKRenderWindowInteractor.py /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/python2.7/site-packages/vtk/gtk/__init__.py /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/python2.7/site-packages/vtk/qt4/QVTKRenderWindowInteractor.py /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/python2.7/site-packages/vtk/qt4/__init__.py /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/python2.7/site-packages/vtk/test/BlackBox.py /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/python2.7/site-packages/vtk/test/Testing.py /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/python2.7/site-packages/vtk/test/__init__.py /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/python2.7/site-packages/vtk/tk/__init__.py /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/python2.7/site-packages/vtk/tk/vtkLoadPythonTkWidgets.py /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/python2.7/site-packages/vtk/tk/vtkTkImageViewerWidget.py /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/python2.7/site-packages/vtk/tk/vtkTkPhotoImage.py /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/python2.7/site-packages/vtk/tk/vtkTkRenderWidget.py /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/python2.7/site-packages/vtk/tk/vtkTkRenderWindowInteractor.py /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/python2.7/site-packages/vtk/util/__init__.py /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/python2.7/site-packages/vtk/util/colors.py /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/python2.7/site-packages/vtk/util/misc.py /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/python2.7/site-packages/vtk/util/numpy_support.py /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/python2.7/site-packages/vtk/util/vtkConstants.py /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/python2.7/site-packages/vtk/util/vtkImageExportToArray.py /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/python2.7/site-packages/vtk/util/vtkImageImportFromArray.py /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/python2.7/site-packages/vtk/util/vtkMethodParser.py /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/python2.7/site-packages/vtk/util/vtkVariant.py /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/python2.7/site-packages/vtk/vtkChartsCore.py /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/python2.7/site-packages/vtk/vtkChartsCorePython.so /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/python2.7/site-packages/vtk/vtkCommonColor.py /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/python2.7/site-packages/vtk/vtkCommonColorPython.so /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/python2.7/site-packages/vtk/vtkCommonComputationalGeometry.py /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/python2.7/site-packages/vtk/vtkCommonComputationalGeometryPython.so /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/python2.7/site-packages/vtk/vtkCommonCore.py /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/python2.7/site-packages/vtk/vtkCommonCorePython.so /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/python2.7/site-packages/vtk/vtkCommonDataModel.py /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/python2.7/site-packages/vtk/vtkCommonDataModelPython.so /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/python2.7/site-packages/vtk/vtkCommonExecutionModel.py /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/python2.7/site-packages/vtk/vtkCommonExecutionModelPython.so -- debian-science-maintainers mailing list debian-science-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/debian-science-maintainers