[Debian-pan-maintainers] Bug#1016598: binoculars: vtk[6, 7] removal

[Adrian Bunk]

On Wed, Aug 03, 2022 at 10:35:42PM +0200, Sebastian Ramacher wrote:
> Source: binoculars
> Version: 0.0.11-1
> Severity: serious
> X-Debbugs-Cc: sramacher at debian.org
> Tags: sid bookworm
> Control: block 1016597 by -1
> User: gladk at debian.org
> Usertags: vtk6_vtk7_removal
> 
> Based on #1013156 and similar bugs:
> 
> Dear maintainer,
> 
> Debian archive has now three major versions of the VTK (The
> Visualization Toolkit) package: vtk6, vtk7 and vtk9. Old vesions
> (vtk6 and vtk7) are not supported by upstream and the package itself
> is not easy for the mainance.
> 
> We aim to drop old and deprecated version vtk6 and vtk7 packages before
> the freeze of the Debian 12 Bookworm. Your package depends on vtk6 or
> vtk7. Thus we ask you to migrate it to the latest vtk9 package.

The only usage seems to be in one place:
/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/binoculars/space.py:from vtk import vtkImageData, vtkXMLImageDataWriter
/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/binoculars/space.py:from vtk.util import numpy_support
/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/binoculars/space.py:        image_data = vtkImageData()
/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/binoculars/space.py:        temp_array = numpy_support.numpy_to_vtk(temp_array, deep=1)
/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/binoculars/space.py:        writer = vtkXMLImageDataWriter()

And this does not even seem to be used right now:
https://github.com/picca/binoculars/commit/ec68d5c0ac656f8421dc27d852b064c1ce75800e

> Cheers

cu
Adrian