Bug#888607: paraview: complaints about deprecated functions in VTK 7.0

[Francesco Poli (wintermute)]

Package: paraview
Version: 5.4.1+dfsg3-1+b2
Severity: important

Hello!
Thanks for maintaining ParaView in Debian.

For some time lately, I have been experienced an annoying issue:
each time I load some data (it seems that this happens with different
data file formats, if not with all of them), a dialog window appears
telling me that

  + !  vtkVolumeTextMapper3D was deprecated for VTK 7.0 and
       will be removed in a future version
  + !  vtkOpenGLVolumeTextureMapper3D was deprecated for VTK 7.0 and
       will be removed in a future version

If I click on "Show full messages", I read:

  Generic Warning: In /build/paraview-8H5PCo/paraview-5.4.1+dfsg3/VTK/Rendering/Volume/vtkVolumeTextureMapper3D.cxx, line 680
  vtkVolumeTextureMapper3D::vtkVolumeTextureMapper3D was deprecated for VTK 7.0 and will be removed in a future version.

  Generic Warning: In /build/paraview-8H5PCo/paraview-5.4.1+dfsg3/VTK/Rendering/VolumeOpenGL/vtkOpenGLVolumeTextureMapper3D.cxx, line 57
  vtkOpenGLVolumeTextureMapper3D::vtkOpenGLVolumeTextureMapper3D was deprecated for VTK 7.0 and will be removed in a future version.


Since the warning messages appear to come from the VTK library copy
included in the paraview package itself, I assume that this misbehavior
began with one of the latest paraview package upgrades.
And that it depends on some inconsistency between ParaView and its
own VTK library copy.

Having to take a look at the dialog (in order to check that it only
contains the above quoted warnings and nothing worse) and to close it,
*each* time I read new data, is quite annoying.

Please fix this misbehavior and/or forward the bug report upstream.

Thanks for your time.
Bye!


-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (800, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.14.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US:en (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages paraview depends on:
ii  libavcodec57       7:3.4.1-1+b2
ii  libavformat57      7:3.4.1-1+b2
ii  libavutil55        7:3.4.1-1+b2
ii  libc6              2.26-4
ii  libcgns3.3         3.3.0-4+b1
ii  libexpat1          2.2.5-3
ii  libfreetype6       2.8.1-1
ii  libgcc1            1:7.2.0-19
ii  libgl1             1.0.0-1.1
ii  libgl2ps1.4        1.4.0+dfsg1-1
ii  libhdf5-100        1.10.0-patch1+docs-4
ii  libjpeg62-turbo    1:1.5.2-2+b1
ii  libjsoncpp1        1.7.4-3
ii  libnetcdf13        1:4.5.0-2
ii  libogg0            1.3.2-1+b1
ii  libopenmpi2        2.1.1-7
ii  libpng16-16        1.6.34-1
ii  libprotobuf10      3.0.0-9.1
ii  libpython2.7       2.7.14-4
ii  libqt4-help        4:4.8.7+dfsg-11
ii  libqt4-network     4:4.8.7+dfsg-11
ii  libqtcore4         4:4.8.7+dfsg-11
ii  libqtgui4          4:4.8.7+dfsg-11
ii  libstdc++6         7.2.0-19
ii  libswscale4        7:3.4.1-1+b2
ii  libtheora0         1.1.1+dfsg.1-14+b1
ii  libtiff5           4.0.9-3
ii  libx11-6           2:1.6.4-3
ii  libxml2            2.9.4+dfsg1-6.1
ii  libxt6             1:1.1.5-1
ii  python-autobahn    17.7.1+dfsg1-3
ii  python-matplotlib  2.0.0+dfsg1-2+b1
ii  python-mpi4py      2.0.0-3
ii  python-six         1.11.0-1
ii  python-twisted     17.9.0-1
ii  tcl [tclsh]        8.6.0+9
ii  zlib1g             1:1.2.8.dfsg-5

Versions of packages paraview recommends:
ii  mpi-default-bin  1.9
ii  paraview-doc     5.4.1+dfsg3-1
ii  paraview-python  5.4.1+dfsg3-1+b2

Versions of packages paraview suggests:
pn  h5utils     <none>
pn  hdf5-tools  <none>

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