Bug#822322: openmeeg: please switch to vtk6

[Yaroslav Halchenko]

On Tue, 03 May 2016, Tobias Frost wrote:

> Hi Yaroslav,

> Sorry to nag you ... But can you just upload it to sid?
> It is one of the last dependencies for vtk removal, and also the vtk
> removal blocks some other stuff... 

> I also think there is no need to wait: Frankly, an upload to sid *can*
> only improve things but certainly cannot make openmeegs situation
> worse... (and on the bonus side, sid uploads have higher prioties on
> the buildds as well, so you'll see sooner the results)

ok -- gimme till tomorrow.  I am looking at the failing tests on a BE
box

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Bug#822322: openmeeg: please switch to vtk6

[Tobias Frost]

On Tue, 3 May 2016 08:19:43 -0400 Yaroslav Halchenko  wrote:
> 
> 
> I am waiting on buildd's to build across to see how grave problems on
BEs, and
> then will look into uploading into unstable with libvtk5 dependency
> removed
> 

Hi Yaroslav,

Sorry to nag you ... But can you just upload it to sid?
It is one of the last dependencies for vtk removal, and also the vtk
removal blocks some other stuff... 

I also think there is no need to wait: Frankly, an upload to sid *can*
only improve things but certainly cannot make openmeegs situation
worse... (and on the bonus side, sid uploads have higher prioties on
the buildds as well, so you'll see sooner the results)

--
tobi

Bug#822322: openmeeg: please switch to vtk6

[Yaroslav Halchenko]

On Tue, 03 May 2016, Tobias Frost wrote:
>  bdepend on vtk6 (allowing vtk5 as alternative) (Closes: #822322)

> vtk5 will be removed very soon and vtk6 is even available in jessie,
> so this alternative can really go away. It is also bpo safe.

> So please just depend on vtk6 and drop the vtk5 entierly.

I thought to argue "but we build backports for all debian/ubuntu
releases", but indeed even there libvtk6 is available:

neurodebian@smaug ~/deb/builds/openmeeg/2.3.0~20160502-1 % grep 
'Unpacking.*libvtk.-dev' *build
openmeeg_2.3.0~20160502-1_amd64.build:Unpacking libvtk6-dev 
(6.2.0+dfsg1-11.1+b1) ...
openmeeg_2.3.0~20160502-1~nd14.04+1_amd64.build:Unpacking libvtk6-dev (6.0.0-6) 
...
openmeeg_2.3.0~20160502-1~nd14.04+1_i386.build:Unpacking libvtk6-dev (6.0.0-6) 
...
openmeeg_2.3.0~20160502-1~nd15.04+1_amd64.build:Unpacking libvtk6-dev 
(6.1.0+dfsg2-6ubuntu2) ...
openmeeg_2.3.0~20160502-1~nd15.04+1_i386.build:Unpacking libvtk6-dev 
(6.1.0+dfsg2-6ubuntu2) ...
openmeeg_2.3.0~20160502-1~nd15.10+1_amd64.build:Unpacking libvtk6-dev 
(6.2.0+dfsg1-4ubuntu5) ...
openmeeg_2.3.0~20160502-1~nd15.10+1_i386.build:Unpacking libvtk6-dev 
(6.2.0+dfsg1-4ubuntu5) ...
openmeeg_2.3.0~20160502-1~nd16.04+1_amd64.build:Unpacking libvtk6-dev 
(6.2.0+dfsg1-10build1) ...
openmeeg_2.3.0~20160502-1~nd16.04+1_i386.build:Unpacking libvtk6-dev 
(6.2.0+dfsg1-10build1) ...
openmeeg_2.3.0~20160502-1~nd+1_amd64.build:Unpacking libvtk6-dev 
(6.2.0+dfsg1-11.1+b1) ...
openmeeg_2.3.0~20160502-1~nd+1_i386.build:Unpacking libvtk6-dev 
(6.2.0+dfsg1-11.1+b1) ...
openmeeg_2.3.0~20160502-1~nd80+1_amd64.build:Unpacking libvtk6-dev 
(6.1.0+dfsg2-6) ...
openmeeg_2.3.0~20160502-1~nd80+1_i386.build:Unpacking libvtk6-dev 
(6.1.0+dfsg2-6) ...
openmeeg_2.3.0~20160502-1~nd90+1_amd64.build:Unpacking libvtk6-dev 
(6.2.0+dfsg1-11.1) ...
openmeeg_2.3.0~20160502-1~nd90+1_i386.build:Unpacking libvtk6-dev 
(6.2.0+dfsg1-11.1) ...

I am waiting on buildd's to build across to see how grave problems on BEs, and
then will look into uploading into unstable with libvtk5 dependency
removed

-- 
Yaroslav O. Halchenko
Center for Open Neuroscience http://centerforopenneuroscience.org
Dartmouth College, 419 Moore Hall, Hinman Box 6207, Hanover, NH 03755
Phone: +1 (603) 646-9834   Fax: +1 (603) 646-1419
WWW:   http://www.linkedin.com/in/yarik

Bug#822322: openmeeg: please switch to vtk6

[Tobias Frost]

Package: src:openmeeg
Followup-For: Bug #822322
Control: retitle -1 openmeeg: please drop B-D alternative on vtk5

Hi Yaroslav,

Thanks for the upload of openmeeg to experimental, and hoping the best that it
"feels well" there as you wrote in #809671 ;-)

However let me reopen this bug and downgrade its severity because of this
changelog entry:

 bdepend on vtk6 (allowing vtk5 as alternative) (Closes: #822322)

vtk5 will be removed very soon and vtk6 is even available in jessie,
so this alternative can really go away. It is also bpo safe.

So please just depend on vtk6 and drop the vtk5 entierly.

Many thanks,

-- 
tobi

PS: Can you push your changes to the repository? Thanks!

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