Bug#654839: paraview should depend on libvtk5-dev

Dominique Belhachemi domibel at debian.org
Sat Jan 7 21:51:58 UTC 2012


On Sat, Jan 7, 2012 at 2:08 PM, Steve M. Robbins <steve at sumost.ca> wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 07, 2012 at 10:22:36AM +0100, Mathieu Malaterre wrote:
>
>> Really it boils down to two things:
>> - What is upstream position on this ? If upstream really do want to
>> release  paraview on fixed schedule, with backward compatible code so
>> that people can build paraview with the latest stable vtk. Then I
>> would say, go for it. debian/paraview will be a
>> 'paraview-with-stable-vtk' package.
>
>> This is of course my point of view, and I am open to others.
>
> I agree with Mathieu's analysis.
>
> My opinion is that the most fruitful path is to open a dialog with
> upstream with the objective that Paraview be distributed with a
> build-time option to use a "system VTK" and obtaining their buy-in to
> support it.
>

I agree. It would be great to have a supported USE_SYSTEM_VTK option
in Paraview. In that case Paraview could use the same stable VTK
library as all the other projects (~20 in Debian).

I will patch Debian's VTK package if necessary to make this happen.
Patches are welcome.

Thanks
-Dominique





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