[Pkg-scicomp-devel] debian package : VTK 5.2

[A. Maitland Bottoms]

Mathieu Malaterre writes:
 > On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 10:51 PM, Steve M. Robbins <steve at sumost.ca> wrote:
 > > Coincidentally, a couple of days ago I asked the vtk maintainer
 > > whether he would be interested in group maintenance of VTK.  However,
 > > I suggested pkg-scicomp rather than debian-med as VTK isn't
 > > particularly "medical".

I'm hoping some pkg-scicomp or debian-med types would entertain collaborating
in a git-based repository. Certainly I have had a look at svn-buildpackage
and it has appeal, but VTK has a lot of dependencies to manage.

In addition to supporting Debian's Experimental, Unstable-Testing-Stable,
there is also backports to be thought of, and perhpas tweaking for other
Debian derived distributions. Keep in mind that Debian's ability to support
multiple versions of components such as Qt and Python has added some complications
to the expectations in VTK that there is only one version of a component on
any given system to build with. It appears that git branching support would
be helpful in this case.

But what really sold me on git is that much wildly-optimistic speculative packaging
concepts could be tried in local git branches without cluttering up the main
packaging branches. This may be helpful in improving Java support, and in dealing
with any issues arising from Python 3.0 upgrades.

 >  svn co https://gdcm.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/gdcm/Sandbox/debian-med/vtk

I'll be using that while I get used to working with git-buildpackage.

Thanks!

-Maitland