[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#984063: Closing bug (Was: Bug#984063: itk libtiff test issues (Was: Bug#984063))

[Andreas Tille]

Hi Bas,

Am Sat, Jan 15, 2022 at 08:30:26PM +0100 schrieb Sebastiaan Couwenberg:
> > Insighttoolkit4 will be removed from Debian.  We are now building
> > insighttoolkit5 and do not support insighttoolkit4 any more.
> 
> Good to know.
> 
> OTB won't support ITK5 for quite a while, though:
> 
>  https://gitlab.orfeo-toolbox.org/orfeotoolbox/otb/-/merge_requests/528
> 
> Removing itk4 will be difficult with rdeps still depending on it.
> 
> There is no RM bug for insighttoolkit4 yet,

Steve simply bumped the version right in d/changelog[1]

> when you file one feel free to
> file one for otb as well and have it block the one for itk4, but please CC
> pkg-grass-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org when you do.

IMHO it would be sad to loose OTB.  When I once started looking at the
packaging upstream was quite responsive.  Did you discussed the issue?

Kind regards

       Andreas.


[1] https://salsa.debian.org/med-team/insighttoolkit/-/blob/master/debian/changelog 

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