Bug#750171: Get rid of libvtk6

Mathieu Malaterre malat at debian.org
Mon Jun 2 10:09:19 UTC 2014


Package: libvtk6
Version: 6.1.0+dfsg-3
Severity: grave

Please get rid of package libvtk6 ASAP. This is a enormous collection
of very different modules. It should clearly be split into
sub-package. I am marking this as grave since it make the package
completely useless, one need to install 363 shared lib anytime libvtk6
is needed. Boost (c++) packages could be a nice examples on how to
maintain a -all package which pulls other sub-packages.

For comparison libvtk5.8 only did provide 50 of them.:

$ dpkg -L libvtk5.8 | grep so.5.8 | wc
     50      50    1536



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