On Wed, Aug 03, 2022 at 10:39:53PM +0200, Sebastian Ramacher wrote: > Source: mayavi2 > Version: 4.8.0-1 > Severity: serious > X-Debbugs-Cc: sramac...@debian.org > Tags: sid bookworm > Control: block 1016597 by -1 > User: gl...@debian.org > Usertags: vtk6_vtk7_removal > > Based on #1013156 and similar bugs: > > Dear maintainer, > > Debian archive has now three major versions of the VTK (The > Visualization Toolkit) package: vtk6, vtk7 and vtk9. Old vesions > (vtk6 and vtk7) are not supported by upstream and the package itself > is not easy for the mainance. > > We aim to drop old and deprecated version vtk6 and vtk7 packages before > the freeze of the Debian 12 Bookworm. Your package depends on vtk6 or > vtk7. Thus we ask you to migrate it to the latest vtk9 package.
Upstream seems to somehow support vtk9: https://github.com/enthought/mayavi/pull/1159 Trying to build the package in unstable with build + runtime dependencies changed to python3-vtk9 works, and in the testsuite this fixes "FAIL: test_basic_vtk" while not causing any regressions. > Cheers cu Adrian
