On Sun, 1 Apr 2018 19:51:36 +0200 Anton Gladky wrote:

> Hi Francesco,

Hello Anton!   :-)

> 
> thanks for bugreport.

You are welcome.
Thanks for your prompt reply!

> The problem with paraview now is that it does
> not actually have any active maintainer
[...]

I noticed that you removed yourself from the uploader list, but I was
hoping someone else from the Debian Science Team was going to step in
soon... Is this not the case?  :-(

> I am not using it any more

Because you no longer have the need to perform data visualizations?
Or because you now use some other similar package?
I am not aware of any other comparable package in Debian, but maybe you
are: that's why I am asking...

> and the Gert (thanks to him!) is doing some technical uploads.

Yeah, that is much appreciated: thanks Gert!

> 
> If you really want it to be fixed (as well as export to AVI), feel free
> to join our team and provide some patches.

This is difficult, I lack the time and I don't know how long will it
take to get the expertise required to maintain such a package...

> Or at least the communication
> with upstream would be very helpful.

Could someone from the Debian Science Team at least forward this bug
report upstream (along with the other ones I filed)?

> Otherwise paraview is the good
> candidate to be dropped from the next release.

Assuming this is not an April Fool's Day prank, I am very worried by
this danger. I really hope this won't happen!


Thanks for your time and helpfulness.


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