Re: VTK 9.5.2 upload to experimental?
On 2025-09-22 23:48, Dominique Belhachemi wrote:
Hi,
Would it make sense to start the process of uploading VTK 9.5.2 to
experimental or is someone already working on it?
Uploading to experimental is "always" safe, if no one else has already
started it
(I'm not actively working on it right now myself)
I have a few changes in mind
- Switch to Qt6
Good idea to use Qt6 if it builds reliably.
- Drop the libvtk9-java package
I'm neutral on this. In general it's good to support all options than
can reasonably be built and supported. Why would you drop it?
- Drop the vtk9-doc package
I'm strongly against this proposition.
doc packages are generally useful, especially when you want to work in
locations where internet is not available.
Why would you drop the doc package?
- Rename the vtk9 binary package to vtk9-utils, or drop it as well,
what is it for?
My general inclination is to be conservative on changing existing
packages,
but in this case you're right, the vtk9 binary package is a little
pointless.
No strong reason not to change it vtk9-utils, that package name makes
more sense for what it provides.
- Drop MPI support
?? huh ?? Why would you do this? Don't do this.
- Finally try to link paraview against it
Curious. Historically upstream showed little interest in making paraview
work with an external VTK,
but they appear to have started thinking about it experimentally,
https://gitlab.kitware.com/vtk/vtk/-/merge_requests/10315
https://gitlab.kitware.com/paraview/paraview/-/issues/22335#note_1434637
Great if you can get it to work.
Drew
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