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

[Steve M. Robbins]

tags 586997 + wontfix
thanks

On Thu, Jan 05, 2012 at 03:17:34PM +0100, Michael Hanke wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 05, 2012 at 12:27:31PM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote:
> > Ping?
> > 
> > Should we close this bug report?
> 
> Well the situation is still the same -- at least by looking at the
> build-deps. What would be the reason for closing this bug? A 'wontfix'
> might be appropriate to give us something to argue about,

OK, done, have at it! :-)


Here is why I won't spend any time on this issue:

1. The ITK wrappers need attention: they currently don't build.

2. ITK 4.0 is already out and needs attention.

3. Libraries embedded in ITK that do *not* offer a ITK_USE_SYSTEM_foo
build time option are, at the very least, untested with other
versions.  They may be heavily patched and the risk of breaking ITK
outweighs any purported benefit, IMHO.  I cannot believe that a
library embedded in ITK is ever going to be a security problem.


If you are really concerned about embedded library copies, I'd
encourage you to work on the issue in the context of ITK 4.

Regards,
-Steve
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