Package: release.debian.org Severity: important X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-med@lists.debian.org Dear Release Team, I would like to seek advice whether build-depending on gcc-11 for insighttoolkit4 would be an acceptable tradeoff to maintain this library in the upcoming bookworm? Even, whether trying to bring it to bookworm would be acceptable at all? The library is not maintained anymore for quite some time, in favor of it's up-to-date version insighttoolkit5. I also suspect maintainability of the old version will be a problem from a security point of view: for instance some un-vendored libraries went back in the source package after breakages in the test suite caused by updates in the system libraries. However, there are still several reverse dependencies which have not made the jump to itk-5.y yet, and are currently out of testing due to depending on packages which are not part of the testing distribution anymore. Also, I noticed in the RC bug[1] affecting it that there has been quite some effort from different parties to try to help bringing it back to testing, but to no avail. Finally, I had been hoping to keep the library in a somewhat working condition for downstream users to be able to migrate somewhat smoothly from itk-4.y to itk-5.y in bookworm; the latter was not made available in bullseye alas. [1]: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1012950 Thank you for your effort in coordinating the construction of Debian releases! Have a nice day, :) -- .''`. Étienne Mollier <emollier@debian.org> : :' : gpg: 8f91 b227 c7d6 f2b1 948c 8236 793c f67e 8f0d 11da `. `' sent from /dev/tty1, please excuse my verbosity `- on air: Symphony X - Charon
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