Bug#810254: VTK7 ... VTK8?

2018-03-11 Thread Anton Gladky
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

Bug#810254: VTK7 ... VTK8?

2018-03-11 Thread A. Maitland Bottoms
... 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