[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#811809: insighttoolkit4: doesn't know about GCC 6

[Gert Wollny]

On Wed, 2016-01-20 at 14:02 +0100, Andreas Tille wrote:

> No idea how complex it would be to use the Debian packaged vxl but
> usually it is what we prefer over code copies.

Sure thing, but vxl is packaged since 2009, and itk since 2007, so that
means there must be a reason why is is not done. Actually, Mathieu
enabled it in 2012 (3.20.1-2), and then Steve removed it again as of
4.5.0-1. 

Well, now looking at it ... the vxl diff is about 12k lines, and
glancing over the code, there are changes in the ITK code of any
thinkable type: renaming variables, changed source code formatting,
real bug fixes, and I've spotted also one real algorithmic change. 

I conclude that we will continue to use the embedded copy :(

Best, 
Gert