[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#586997: Bug#586997: insighttoolkit: Builds duplicate of NIfTI library

[Michael Hanke]

Hi,

On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 07:46:42AM -0400, Michael Hanke wrote:
> ITK sources contain (among others) a fork/convenience copy of the NIfTI
> libaries, and the package builds it as libitkniftiio and libitkznz. This
> copy is quite outdated in comparsion to the version shipped in the
> libnifti1 Debian package. This library had e.g. memory leak issues in
> the past and it would be good if Debian's ITK would build on top of the
> work that has been done on this package.

Well, I take the 'outdated fork' back -- I read the diff the wrong way.
Looks like the are a few unreleased commits after the last released version.

But in general I think it would still be a good idea to avoid duplicate
code.


Michael

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