[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#753809: Potential problem with GDCM/ITK (Was: Bug#753809: ginkgocadx: will not display studies)

[Karsten Hilbert]

On Sat, Jul 05, 2014 at 05:32:32PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote:

> could you please quote the full upstream mail about the GDCM/ITK issue?

Sure:

	> Date: Fri, 4 Jul 2014 23:28:02 +0200
	> From: Carlos Barrales Ruiz <carlos.barrales at metaemotion.com>
	> To: Karsten Hilbert <Karsten.Hilbert at gmx.net>
	> Subject: Re: assert() failed
	> 
	> Hi, Karsten.
	...
	> Regarding the study in your other mails…  the error seems to occur internally, in the pixel data reading stage which is performed by the irk version of GDCM.
	> We found many issues in GDCM 2.x which is provided with debian bundled ITK version.
	> Please, try to open the study with our compiled ginkgo cadx 3.7.0, just to discard the problem is there.
	...
	> Thank you.
	> 
	> Best regards.
	> --
	> Carlos Barrales Ruiz
	> carlos.barrales at metaemotion.com
	> [+34] 983 108 494
	> 
	> MetaEmotion
	> Edificio CTTA. Módulos 119-122.
	> 
	> 
	> Paseo de Belén, nº9. E47011. Valladolid. Spain.
	> www.metaemotion.com

But that won't help :-)

I would think Matthieu (sp?) knows more.

> It would make more sense to apply the patch to GDCM/ITK upstream if it
> is needed / helpful to display "a whole range of studies".

AFAIR ITK/GDCM upstream has been fairly reluctant to apply patches.

Karsten
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