Bug#793621: transition: vtk6

[Anton Gladky <gladk@debian.org>]

Hi Emilio,

sorry for this uncordinated transition, which I started
with vtk6.2. I did not await that it can cause so much
issues. I will try to fix them as far as possible.

The main problem is that "normal" Qt5 is absent for armel
and armhf. And vtk cannot be built without it.

Regards

Anton


2015-07-25 18:45 GMT+02:00 Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>:
> Package: release.debian.org
> Severity: normal
> User: release.debian.org@packages.debian.org
> Usertags: transition
> Control: block -1 with 792883 793604 793605 793607
>
> There is an uncoordinated, ongoing transition for vtk6.
>
> vtk6 failed to build on armel/armhf. Also some of the rdeps (gammaray,
> liggghts, nifti2dicom) currently fail to build.
>
> Anton, as a library maintainer I would have expected you to
>
> - coordinate the transition with the RT
> - test-build the rdeps to check for FTBFS bugs
> - file bugs for the rdeps, prepare patches, offer to NMU...
> - not break vtk6 on some arches in the middle of the transition
>
> Please help fix the remaining issues as this is blocking other
> transitions.
>
> Also it'd be good if you gave a status update on the vtk5 -> vtk6
> transition.
>
> Emilio