Bug#750171: Get rid of libvtk6

[Mathieu Malaterre]

severity 750171 important

On Mon, Jun 2, 2014 at 1:23 PM, Anton Gladky <gladk at debian.org> wrote:
> severity 750171 wishlist
> thanks

How could this possibly be 'wishlist'. The libvtk6 is simply a
collection of random lib without any clear definition. There are
python, java and Tcl binding within it. It is *impossible* to have a
clear ABI since those are even linked to python directly (use
python2.7 API).

> Hi Mathieu,
>
> 2014-06-02 12:09 GMT+02:00 Mathieu Malaterre <malat at debian.org>:
>> Please get rid of package libvtk6 ASAP. This is a enormous collection
>> of very different modules. It should clearly be split into
>> sub-package.
>
> Please, send patches, if you think so.

Obviously marking the bug as wishlist wont make *any* one provide
patch for it. What are you trying to do, force a quick transition to
vtk6 or have a decent package for your *users*.

>> I am marking this as grave since it make the package
>> completely useless, one need to install 363 shared lib anytime libvtk6
>> is needed.
>
> It does not make the package useless.

strictly speaking yes, but as maintainer you could at least
acknowledge that it will make any transition or rebuild an enormous
amount of effort. Fixing this issue *before* the vtk6 transition would
make it painless...