Bug#751395: approach to fix "vtk6: Do not compress perl scripts"

[Mathieu Malaterre]

On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 5:20 PM, Gert Wollny <gerddie at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've prepared a GDCM-2.6 upload that uses the compressed scripts, but
> since depending on files from /usr/share/doc is a policy violation, I'd
> suggest the following 2-step procedure to get rid of the problem:
>
> 1. Apply the attached patch to the vtk6 debian scripts to install the
>    perl scripts uncompressed in the libvtk6-dev package, but also
>    keep the compressed versions where they were before. This way the
>    current GDCM-2.6 version that is in NEW can be build even if you
>    get around to do a new vtk6 upload before GDCM passes through NEW.

+1

> 2. When this new vtk6-dev package is available from the repo, I'll fix
>    GDCM to use the these uncompressed scripts, and I'll notify you that
>    you can adjust the -doc package to no longer include the (then
>    duplicate) perl scripts.

3. When this new GDCM-2.6 is available from the repo: remove the old
.gz perl scripts that no-one but GDCM uses :)

Thanks for your hard work on GDCM 2.6.0. I've already remove the *.lib
from the next release.

-M