Anton Gladky <gl...@debian.org> writes: > So, I think vtkdata can safely be removed as requested by Mathieu.
I support removal of vtkdata from sid and testing, and agree it should not be released with stretch. Back when I created the vtkdata package, I was motivated by the need for it in build-time test targets, as well as its usefulness in tutorial examples and references from those teaching with VTK. Notice that there are VTKData and VTKLargeData collections shipped from vtk.org along with the source tarballs. (For some reason VTKLargeData is a smaller file than VTKData.) Perhaps as new VTK v8.0.x gets packaged we might want to re-instate a vtkdata package, another approach might be to look at the data size requirement of the `make test` target and see what is really useful to keep. More discussion seems likely worthwhile to me, and if vtkdata has to go through NEW processing again that might be another chance to build consensus. -Maitland
