[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#740705: Please incorportate ubuntu patches

[Gianfranco Costamagna]

> Il Sabato 8 Marzo 2014 23:19, Steve M. Robbins <steve at sumost.ca> ha scritto:
> > On March 6, 2014 07:29:31 AM Gianfranco Costamagna wrote:
> 
>>  Ok, can you then please sponsor a package for me? I can fix this bug, also
>>  #740628 and push on mentors.
> 
> I can do that.  Please send a follow-up to the bug when your work is ready.  I 
> (or another debian-med team member) will act on it.
> 

Here you are :)
https://mentors.debian.net/package/insighttoolkit
I kept changes as minimal as possible

> 
>>  > Is there some reason you can't use ITK v4?
>> 
>>  The main reason is:  
> 
>    [...limited architectures...]
> 
>>  many packages that have been successfully built with the v3 won't build
>>  anymore against v4, so the rationale is "use 4 on amd64 and i386, 
> switch to
>>  v3 for other archs".
> 
> OK.  But you do understand that in future this will no longer be an option  
> because, at some point, v3 will be removed from the archive in favour of v4 
> that is now in Testing.  
> 

Ack.

>>  I don't know if you have an hint for building them against v4 (removing 
> the
>>  package from ftpmaster will let the package reach testing I know)
> 
> If you want to build a package that requires ITK, at present you have two 
> options: (a) build only for the two ITK-supported architectures, or (b) stay 
> with v3.  There's a discussion going on now in debian-med regarding a third 
> option: restoring architectures to v4.

That will be nice for the long term indeed, evenmore because v3 has some problems fixed in v4 I heard from nifti2dicom maintainer, in the meanwhile I think the fallback is the easiest way to let the packagenifti2dicom reach testing

> 
> Regards,
> 
> -Steve

Best regards,

Gianfranco
>