Bug#1016600: siconos: vtk[6,7] removal

[Stephen Sinclair]

On Thu, Sep 1, 2022 at 10:56 PM Adrian Bunk <bunk at debian.org> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Aug 03, 2022 at 10:42:08PM +0200, Sebastian Ramacher wrote:
> > Source: siconos
> > Version: 4.3.1+dfsg-2
> > Severity: serious
> > X-Debbugs-Cc: sramacher at debian.org
> > Tags: sid bookworm
> > Control: block 1016597 by -1
> > User: gladk at debian.org
> > Usertags: vtk6_vtk7_removal
> >
> > Based on #1013156 and similar bugs:
> >
> > Dear maintainer,
> >
> > Debian archive has now three major versions of the VTK (The
> > Visualization Toolkit) package: vtk6, vtk7 and vtk9. Old vesions
> > (vtk6 and vtk7) are not supported by upstream and the package itself
> > is not easy for the mainance.
> >
> > We aim to drop old and deprecated version vtk6 and vtk7 packages before
> > the freeze of the Debian 12 Bookworm. Your package depends on vtk6 or
> > vtk7. Thus we ask you to migrate it to the latest vtk9 package.
>
> Two observations regarding the usage of VTK in siconos:
>
> There is WITH_VTK in siconos that does not seem to build with VTK 9,
> but it's anyway not enabled.
>
> The only current usage of VTK is python3-vtk7 in siconos-mechanics-tools.
> This might need upstrream fixes like
>   https://github.com/siconos/siconos/pull/437
>
> > Cheers


Thank you Adrian.  I have an update to the package for a newer
upstream version that has been under construction for a while, but I
haven't been available until recently to work on it more.  I'll try to
get this done soon.

Steve