Bug#1027965: Fix for the RC bug in vtk

[Jochen Sprickerhof]

Hi Steven,

* Steven Robbins <steve at sumost.ca> [2023-02-05 10:26]:
>Was looking yesterday for an RC bug to fix and noticed #1027965 against VTK --
>a build failure in gdcm caused by missing dependency.  The fix proposed by
>Mathieu seems reasonable to me.

I assume you mean the proposal to add a libvtk9-qt-dev dependency to 
libvtk9-dev?

Note that libvtk9-dev already has a dependency to libvtk9-qt-dev 
resulting in a cyclic dependency between both. Those are known to not 
work well in Debian and should be avoided.

The underlying problem here is that the vtk9 cmake files are not 
separated between libvtk9-dev and libvtk9-qt-dev so the split seems 
artificial to Debian and both packages should probably be merged into 
one or the cmake files need rewriting.

Cheers Jochen
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