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

[Steve Robbins]

I pass also.


On April 11, 2016 4:41:20 AM CDT, Gert Wollny <gw.fossdev at gmail.com> wrote:
>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 

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