[Python-apps-team] Bug#550635: mayavi2: [regression] interpolated scalar coloring results in black surface

[Gael Varoquaux]

On Mon, Apr 05, 2010 at 04:00:13PM +0200, Francesco Poli wrote:
> To the Python Applications Packaging Team: maybe mayavi2 should have a
> versioned dependency on python-vtk (>= 5.4.2-5) in order to make sure
> that python-vtk version is consistent with libvtk5.4

> Or something similar.

> After I upgraded python-vtk to version 5.4.2-5, the bug vanished.

> As a consequence, I think this bug may be fixed by making sure that
> mayavi2 pulls in python-vtk/5.4.2-5 or later.
> Adding a versioned dependency, as suggested above, should be enough to
> fix this bug.

Excellent good to know.

Francesco, could you make sure that the information does not get lost,
and that the bug gets fixed by the modification that you suggest on the
Debian side. I don't understand who exactly can do what in Debian
packaging, so it would help.

Best,

Gaël