[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#943677: please package insighttoolkit5 (5.0 and 5.1 beta 1 are out)

[Yaroslav Halchenko]

On Thu, 31 Oct 2019, Gert Wollny wrote:

> Since I'm no longer working on anything related to image processing
> that would require ITK (or its dependent packages) I'm not very
> dedicated to package this, especially since packaging ITK really needs
> a lot of work an time. 

> Especially the python bindings are a nuisance, it is quite difficult to
> get them to pass the tests reliably, and they increase the build time
> quite *a lot*. So if we agree to drop these I might give it a shot. I
> would package this as a all new package insighttoolkit5, to not
> interfere with what is currently build against insighttoolkit4 (need to
> disable one rather useless python test in 4.13.1 to get it pass). 

having a new insighttoolkit5 is IMHO the way to go as well.

In my use case (ants) I believe I don't need python bindings, so I would
already be very thankful for a build even without  them.  In the long
run (I might even be able to help) we could bring them back later on.

Thank you Gert!

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