Bug#773380: Bogus description in d/control

Mathieu Malaterre malat at debian.org
Wed Dec 17 17:36:32 UTC 2014


Package: libvtk6.1
Version: 6.1.0+dfsg2-4
Severity: minor

d/control for libvtk6.1 reads as:

1.
[...]
The library needs OpenGL to render the graphics and for Linux machines
Mesa is necessary.
[...]

Mesa is not strictly required (ATI and or nvidia opengl works just fine).

2.
[...]
The terms/copyright can be read in /usr/share/doc/vtk/README and README.html.
[...]

That's not the correct path

3.
[...]
VTK-Linux-HOWTO has information about using vtk,
[...]

Where is this file ?

4.
[...]
 getting documentataion or help and instructions on building VTK.
[...]

doc-what now ?

5.
[...]
This package provides the shared libraries needed to run C++ programs
that use VTK.
[...]

I am not going to comment on this one, but yeah strictly speaking
libvtk6.1 should only provide what is need for C++ runtime (not python
and or java binding)...

6.
[...]
To compile C++ code that uses VTK you have to install libvtk5-dev.
[...]

libvtk5-dev really ?



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