[Debian-med-packaging] Fail to build SimpleITK with ITK v4.12

[Gert Wollny]

Am Samstag, den 12.08.2017, 10:51 +0100 schrieb Ghislain Vaillant:
> Dear all,
> 
> Since the update to ITK version 4.12 which recently landed in
> unstable, SimpleITK fails to build from source. The build log reports
> a failure to find the gdcm headers used by ITK. The error from the
> latest build on debomatic is pasted below:

> I am also concerned by the following detail: gdcm was recently bumped
> to the 2.8.x series, but the include directory is still 
> `/usr/include/gdcm-2.6` according to the above build log. That
> sounds wrong to me.

I did the upload of gdcm-2.8 and itk-4.12 to unstable on the same day,
and  for that reason the package ITK-4.12 was still build against gdcm-
2.6. Unfortunately, this can not be automatically recorded in the
dependencies of libinsighttoolkit4-dev and I also should have set the
build-deps to libgdcm2-dev (>=2.8).  

To correct the issue a rebuild of ITK is needed, but because of #871677
respective #871573 this is currently not possible. 

If upstream doesn't solve #871573 in the next few says I will disable
the python bindings in order to keep the reverse dependencies in
testing and re-enable them when the bug is fixed, though. 

Best, 
Gert