[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#759060: [olly at survex.com: Bug#759060: invesalius: Partial patch for wxPython 3.0]

[Olly Betts]

On Sat, Sep 13, 2014 at 02:10:42PM -0300, Olly Betts wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 04:25:23PM -0300, Thiago Franco Moraes wrote:
> > I don't know if it's my setup here. But I think there is a problem in
> > the interaction between VTK5.8 and wxPython3, it was already reported
> > here [1], and is the same problem that Olly Betts reported some emails
> > ago. I installed Debian Testing inside a VirtualBox VM. The wxPyhon
> > version in 3.0, and VTK is 5.8. The error happens even with this
> > simple python script:
> > 
> > <script>
> > from vtk.wx.wxVTKRenderWindowInteractor import
> > wxVTKRenderWindowInteractorConeExample
> > wxVTKRenderWindowInteractorConeExample()
> > </script>
> > 
> > Please, could you, please run this script in your setup?
> 
> Fails for me.  It seems that python-vtk needs an update for this
> transition.  It however appears to lack any sort of dependency on
> wx at all, which makes this hard to discover.
> 
> I'll file a bug.

OK, I filed bugs earlier for vtk and vtk6, and started a vtk build with
a fix for this which finally completed and I've now added a patch to the
vtk bug.

With the patched vtk, invesalius-3.0 actually starts up the GUI.

It seems to take hours to build vtk (at least on my laptop) so to help
if you want to test further, I've uploaded the rebuilt python-vtk
package and a detached GPG signature:

http://survex.com/~olly/python-vtk_5.8.0-17.4_amd64.deb
http://survex.com/~olly/python-vtk_5.8.0-17.4_amd64.deb.sig

You should be able to install the .deb with:

sudo dpkg -i python-vtk_5.8.0-17.4_amd64.deb

Cheers,
    Olly