On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 08:30:50PM +0200, Sylvestre Ledru wrote: > Le dimanche 28 août 2011 à 21:23 +0300, Anton Gladky a écrit : > > Paraview is really not an easy source to package. > > > > Now the debian-directory is rewritten almost completely to make the > > packaging as simple as possible. I prefer to escape "overpatching", > > because it complicates a maintainance. > > Well, in the Debian packaging world, we are not doing it the easy way but the best way... Agreed. > And, here, > the best way would be to drop VTK from Paraview sources. I know it is a > lot of works at first but it is the way to go. That's not clear at all. There are clear indications that the Paraview authors chose to embed a VTK source tree and stabilize the combined Paraview+VTK tree. I have seen no analysis of what the effect will be on changing this. This analysis needs to be done before we know what "the best way" is. Regards, -Steve
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