Bug#637397: Paraview without embedded VTK [was: Re: Bug#637397: Possible solutions]

[Sylvestre Ledru]

Le dimanche 28 août 2011 à 21:23 +0300, Anton Gladky a écrit :
> Paraview is really not an easy source to package.
> 
> Now the debian-directory is rewritten almost completely to make the
> packaging as simple as possible. I prefer to escape "overpatching",
> because it complicates a maintainance.
Well, in the Debian packaging world, we are not doing it the easy way but the best way... And, here,
the best way would be to drop VTK from Paraview sources. I know it is a
lot of works at first but it is the way to go.

> I am afraid, that replacing the vtk is not an easy work. It can
> produce even more bugs and problems. For example, it was impossible to
> replace fltk and sqlite with packaged in debian variants [1], because,
> it seems, upstream uses another version of the source.
Could you report a bug for fltk and an other one for sqlite against the
paraview packages ? In the bug report, please add the embedded version
of these libraries.
After that, we could discuss (with upstream or not) what could be done
here. I am not afraid about the sqlite one.

Thanks,
Sylvestre