Bug#1018954: Can't open perl script "/usr/share/vtk9/doxygen//doc_header2doxygen.pl": No such file or directory

[Mathieu Malaterre]

On Thu, Dec 29, 2022 at 5:10 PM Paul Gevers <elbrus at debian.org> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> On Fri, 2 Sep 2022 15:15:50 +0200 Mathieu Malaterre <malat at debian.org>
> wrote:
> > Source: vtk9
> > Version: 9.1.0+really9.1.0+dfsg2-4
> >
> > This is yet the same issue again, gdcm will need the file doc_header2doxygen.pl
> >
> > In vtk7 it could be found in two locations:
> >
> > % dpkg -S /usr/share/vtk-7.1/doxygen/doc_header2doxygen.pl
> > libvtk7-dev: /usr/share/vtk-7.1/doxygen/doc_header2doxygen.pl
> > % dpkg -S /usr/share/doc/vtk7/doxygen/doc_header2doxygen.pl.gz
> > vtk7-doc: /usr/share/doc/vtk7/doxygen/doc_header2doxygen.pl.gz
> >
> > Please provide at least one in vtk9* packages.
>
> It seems that file has been dropped from the upstream vtk* sources (at
> least I couldn't find it anymore in vtk9 salsa git archive). So I guess
> that if gdcm needs it for its build, it's better if gdcm took the copy
> on board.

Oh right! It seems this file was removed in commit
f4902fe5e342e12a48533339a490e825ef75d199

I'll remove the code in GDCM asap.

Thanks !