[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#820635: igstk: depends on vtk 5

[Andreas Tille]

Hi

On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 01:02:25AM +0200, Gert Wollny wrote:
> So far upstream didn't ported the code to use vtk6 and the last commit
> is 19 month old [1], so th best would be to drop the package, and only
> re-introduce it if upstream provides a new release that uses vtk6 (or
> the upcoming vtk7). 

I can confirm that I had a look into igstk in our Advend bug squashing
party.  I commited the point when I gave up which was somehow connected
to the fact that libvtk6-java was hanging ages in new.

I had the impression that VTK6 might be supported by the latest version
5.2 but I'm not sure.  I personally have no free time slices to verify
this.  I have no idea whether the bad maintenance of this package or the
fact that there is really no interest might lead to popcon zero.

If nobody raises his hand to volunteer maintaining this package in a
short time frame I'd be fine with removing it.

Kind regards

         Andreas.

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