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

[Sebastiaan Couwenberg]

On 1/15/22 21:45, Andreas Tille wrote:
> 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]

How does the insighttoolkit5 package in unstable cause the removal of 
insighttoolkit4?

>> 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?

I did, see the comments in the MR linked above. OTB 9 should support 
ITK5, but is not expected until the end of the year.

Kind Regards,

Bas

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