[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#1114120: gdcm: FTBFS: pdf documentation generation fails

[Dominique Belhachemi]

On Sat, Oct 4, 2025 at 12:08 PM Mathieu Malaterre <malat at debian.org> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Oct 3, 2025 at 8:27 PM Dominique Belhachemi <domibel at debian.org> wrote:
> >
> > Would it be acceptable to disable the PDF documentation generation
> > temporarily until the doxygen/latex issues are resolved?
>
> Sure !
>
Thank you!

> > The logs attached to this bug report also contain warnings that will
> > become errors with the upcoming vtk 9.5.2 upload:
> > /<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/Utilities/VTK/Applications/gdcm2vtk.cxx:501:46:
> > warning: ‘vtkStdString::operator const char*()’ is deprecated: Call
> > `.c_str()` explicitly [-Wdeprecated-declarations]
> >
> > I can provide patches for both issues if that would be helpful.
>
> They are already upstreamed, right ? It should be possible to upload
> 3.2.1 instead of cherry-picking them.
>
Not yet. Here is the pull request for upstream.
https://github.com/malaterre/GDCM/pull/198

This patch is needed for the upcoming VTK 9.5 upload.