[Pkg-scicomp-devel] [Paraview] paraview 3.2.2 is in Debian

Ondrej Certik ondrej at certik.cz
Mon Jun 30 18:08:47 UTC 2008


On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 7:57 PM, Berk Geveci <berk.geveci at kitware.com> wrote:
> We fixed the gcc 4.3 issues in cvs. Our approach was slightly
> different. We included the C headers instead of their C++ counterparts
> (stdlib.h instead of cstdlib etc.) to make sure everything works with
> older (really older) compilers that we support for VTK.

Excellent, we'll remove the patch once you make a new stable release
from the CVS.

> The cmake 2.6
> patch is not needed either.

Without it, the build fails in Debian (or more precisely, it failed
when we were creating the package a few weeks ago), so in this sense
it is needed. Maybe it is possible to fix the problem by some other
way too.

> I took a quick look at the other patches,
> they seem to be debian installation specific. Please let me know if
> there is anything I should look at more carefully.

Yes, the other ones are Debian specific, so that the package conforms
to Debian policy.

Ondrej



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