Re: libvtk
As Anton and Mathieu said, it is probably not at all the same amount of
work.
The best solution from a maintainer point of view would be to package
5.10 first.
5 family is the one by all the dependencies.
If you are in a hurry to see 6.0 in Debian, you should step in to help.
Sylvestre
Le 12/09/2013 10:06, ST a écrit :
> If the order doesn't matter, is it possible to package the most recent
> 6.0 version first?
>
> Thank you,
> ST
>
> On Thu, 2013-09-12 at 07:30 +0200, Anton Gladky wrote:
>> Hi Mathieu,
>>
>> thanks for the note. You are right, we should probably have it as a separate
>> source package.
>>
>> Anton
>>
>> 2013/9/12 Mathieu Malaterre <malat@debian.org>:
>>> Anton,
>>>
>>> Here is my two cents, given the large number of API/ABI changes, I
>>> doubt most rdepends will actually compile.
>>> Again *IMHO*, I would have upload vtk5.x one last time, and provide
>>> vtk6 as a separate source package (see what happen with tiff4/5 for
>>> example), to allow for a smooth transition. As stated before, I will
>>> not get involved in this process, so feel free to handle it the way
>>> you think is right.
>>>
>>> 2cts
>>>
>>> On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 6:29 PM, Anton Gladky <gladk@debian.org> wrote:
>>>> I have started to package v6.0, but I am not sure, when it will be packaged.
>>>> From my point of view, there is no big reasons to upload 5.10.
>>>>
>>>> Anton
>>>>
>>>> 2013/9/11 Mathieu Malaterre <malat@debian.org>:
>>>>> [top post sorry]
>>>>>
>>>>> As i explained, I was talking about vtk 5.10.1, I have no clue how
>>>>> hard it is to package vtk 6.0.0
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