Bug#732362: vtk 5.10.1 for jessie

[Christophe Trophime]

Part of the trouble is that VTK_USE_EXTERNAL option is not fully supported right now by upstream.
However we can build paraview on top of vtk (see branch use_external_vtk in paraview.git)

There may be a way to install vtk 6.xx libs from paraview that won't clash with any vtk package
except python-vtk. From my trials it seems that to get a working paraview-python we must ship a 
python-vtk package. I can create a new branch on paraview.git to see my progress in that direction if you wish....



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----- Mail original -----
De: "Anton Gladky" <gladk at debian.org>
À: "Dominique Belhachemi" <domibel at debian.org>, "Christophe Trophime" <christophe.trophime at lncmi.cnrs.fr>
Cc: "Mathieu Malaterre" <malat at debian.org>, "732362" <732362 at bugs.debian.org>
Envoyé: Mardi 17 Décembre 2013 14:39:45
Objet: Re: Bug#732362: vtk 5.10.1 for jessie

2013/12/17 Dominique Belhachemi <domibel at debian.org>:
> Anton, we might need your help with the paraview package. We need to figure
> out a way to build against system VTK libraries. This would help avoiding
> file conflicts and the vtk package would get a better test coverage.

Christophe Trophime has done already a job to escape such conflicts.
Moreover he proposed to build vtk-binaries from Paraview-source.
Looks reasonable...


Anton