Bug#743177: libvtk6 should conflicts with libvtk5.8

[Anton Gladky]

Hi Mathieu,

thanks for bugreport. We should probably discuss how to
proceed with this transition. From my point of view it is
better to do as quickly as possible. Declaring 5.8 and 6.0
version is possible, but during transition time we will get
tons of removed packages. What do you think?

Anton


2014-03-31 10:58 GMT+02:00 Mathieu Malaterre <malat at debian.org>:
> Package: libvtk6
>
> Clearly there is something missing here. libvtk6 can be co-installed
> with libvtk5.8. VTK API (ABI too) is completely incompatible in
> between those two versions.
>
> Typical scenarios that should not happen is an app linked against
> vtkCommon and vtkCommonCore. This gets even worst with python
>
> $ python
> import vtkCommon
> import vtkCommonCore
>
> I guess the same is true for java + tcl binding.
>
> So IMHO libvtk5.8 and libvtk6 should conflicts.
>
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