Hi Maitland,
thanks for your interest and proposing the help in maintaining
VTK. It will always good to have more people involving in
maintaining of such a large and complex package.
I think you can surely coordinate your efforts with Gert, who is
preparing VTK7/VTK8 for the Buster. I will keep m
... and now there has been a VTK 8.1.0 available since December.
Since VTK6 is in such good shape, I am wondering if it would be useful
to try to have multiple VTK versions co-installable in Debian (VTK6 6.3,
VTK7 7.1.1, VTK8 8.1) or if we should head towards a Buster release with
the single latest