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

[Gert Wollny]

Hello,

Am Montag, den 11.04.2016, 08:28 +0200 schrieb Andreas Tille:


> 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.  
Well, I had a stab a this a few days ago, the complications are: 

 - no vtk6 
 - The Qt GUI requires that vtk is compiled with Qt support, 
   but it uses QT4 and vtk6 is build against QT5

At this point I gave up, and looked at the project activity: The
developers list has below one mail a month, in the last three years and
it's mostly unanswered questions, and the user list is likewise very
low traffic and there are two mail that spell out the missing VTK6
support. 

> If nobody raises his hand to volunteer maintaining this package in a
> short time frame I'd be fine with removing it.
I pass on this one. The project is hosted by Kitware, and somehow I
suspect that they would continue maintaining it if there was serious
interest. 

Best, 
Gert