Bug#944353: paraview - vtk depenency removed

[Alastair McKinstry]

Hi

There is ongoing work to remove the vendorized version of vtk from 
Paraview and use the packaged version.

For this reason I preferred to leave paraview as a "dependency" of vtk 
as it only temporarily isn't.

Best regards
Alastair

On 04/12/2019 06:06, nkr at gmx.com wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The issue described in this bug is fixed. However, after the update to
> 5.7.0-2, the new python3-paraview has no vtk dependencies (python3-
> vtk7). Previously, paraview-python had dependencies on python-vtk6 and
> python3-vtk7. Yet, `python -c "import vtk"` runs successfully even when
> `dpkg -l | grep vtk`, shows no vtk packages. So I'm assuming, paraview
> has parts of vtk packaged with it. Parts, because although `import vtk`
> is successful, a script like the one in the link below fails.
>
> https://vtk.org/Wiki/VTK/Examples/Python/Cylinder
>
> It runs only after installing python3-vtk7. Perhaps this is
> intentional. But I just wanted to make sure.
>
> Thanks
>
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