[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#1024343: insighttoolkit4: releasability with bookworm?

[Sebastian Ramacher]

Control: reassign -1 src:insighttoolkit4 4.13.3withdata-dfsg2-4
Control: tags -1 sid trixie
Control: severity -1 serious
Control: retitle -1 insighttoolkit4: do not release with trixie

On 2022-11-23 22:26:19 +0100, Étienne Mollier wrote:
> Control: tags -1 - moreinfo
> 
> Hi Sebastian,
> 
> Sorry, I might have triggered the upload a couple of minutes too
> early.  Anyway, thanks for reaching out!
> 
> Sebastian Ramacher, on 2022-11-23:
> > On 2022-11-17 21:44:22 +0100, Étienne Mollier wrote:
> > > However, there are still several reverse dependencies which have
> > > not made the jump to itk-5.y yet, and are currently out of
> > > testing due to depending on packages which are not part of the
> > > testing distribution anymore.  Also, I noticed in the RC bug[1]
> > > affecting it that there has been quite some effort from
> > > different parties to try to help bringing it back to testing,
> > > but to no avail.  Finally, I had been hoping to keep the library
> > > in a somewhat working condition for downstream users to be able
> > > to migrate somewhat smoothly from itk-4.y to itk-5.y in
> > > bookworm; the latter was not made available in bullseye alas.
> > 
> > Which of the reverse dependencies do you want to see in bookworm? From
> > the two of the three I looked at, they have their own RC bugs and look
> > mostly unmaintained. ants, for example, has a RC bug open from 2017.
> 
> I've been mostly concerned by the third one, otb[1], which seems
> still under active maintenance even though it is held by missing
> ITK4 dependencies.
> 
> [1]: https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/otb
> 
> itksnap 4.0.0 is due to support vtk9 and itk5, but looks still
> under beta release, so didn't make it to the packaging step yet.
> Looking at reverse build dependencies, facet-analyser looks to
> have made the move to itk5 recently and shouldn't be in trouble.
> 
> Things otherwise moved on since last time I checked.
> Maybe I worry too much.

Looks like this is settled then for bookworm. For trixie, we should
finally get rid of insighttoolkit4 in favor of insighttoolkit5.
Reassigning this bug to insighttoolkit4 so we don't forget.

Cheers
-- 
Sebastian Ramacher