Bug#798164: vtk: do not ship in stretch

[Mattia Rizzolo]

On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 12:48:37AM +0200, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote:
> However, there is a reason to keep both: vtk6 is qt5 based only. This
> leaves applications which are still on qt4 in the dark.

This is not a good reason.  Also switching to Qt5 is a thing.

> One such
> application is the simulation tool.

For some reason I can't really understand my `dak rm -Rn vtk` doesn't
show src:elmerfem.

Anyway, the binaries produced by it don't depend on vtk at all (only
some old versions on sh4 and hppa do).  Most problaly the dependency on
vtk there is not needed at all.

> Elmer is unstable only right now.
> But this is due to long standing license issues. These have finally been
> resolved. It would be unfortunate if elmer would not make it to straetch
> because of a missing vtk package.

That's life.  Fix the package.  Also it already missed the Jessie
release.

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