[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#1013156: gdcm: vtk[6,7] removal

[Mathieu Malaterre]

On Wed, Oct 26, 2022 at 7:53 AM Andreas Tille <andreas at an3as.eu> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> in the bug log there is some discussion to drop C# and Java VTK
> bindings.  This would mean to drop the packages libvtkgdcm-cil and
> libvtkgdcm-java.  I'm perfectly fine with this and I just pushed
> a change in d/control where I replaced s/vtk7/vtk9/ globally.  The
> build[1] is currently failing at a probably simple Java issue:
>
> /usr/lib/jvm/default-java/include/jni.h:45:10: fatal error: jni_md.h: No such file or directory
>    45 | #include "jni_md.h"
>       |          ^~~~~~~~~~
> compilation terminated.
>
> I have no idea whether we might keep on supporting the Java bindings if
> this can be solved.  But I'm pretty sure we should act on droping
> what needs to be droped in a timely manner to make sure gdcm will
> remain in testing.
>
> Any help is welcome.

See my original work at:

https://salsa.debian.org/med-team/gdcm/-/commits/debian/experimental/