Bug#1024343: insighttoolkit4: releasability with bookworm?
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On 2022-11-17 21:44:22 +0100, Étienne Mollier wrote:
> 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.
Which of the reverse dependencies do you want to see in bookworm? From
the two of the three I looked at, they have their own RC bugs and look
mostly unmaintained. ants, for example, has a RC bug open from 2017.
Cheers
>
> [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, :)
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