Bug#385519: [Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#385519: octaviz: please migrate to VTK 5

[Rafael Laboissiere]

* Thomas Weber <thomas.weber.mail at gmail.com> [2006-09-23 14:25]:

> okay, here we go (in order to avoid people at BSPs wasting time). 
>  
> Preliminary (i386) packages are at 
> 	deb http://www.num.uni-sb.de/~weber/debian unstable/
> 
> These are very preliminary (the changelog entries are not really
> accurate, but Octaviz is not a package where I want to interrupt a build
> that's halfway through), but seem to work. 

Once the build is finished, regarless of the result, could you please commit
your changes to the DOG repository?

> You need the latest unstable libvtk5-packages (5.0.1-4), either from my
> repository above or from incoming (from where I just copied them). And
> the vtk-examples packages, if you want to test with Octaviz's examples.

I am just wondering if we could add a test suite to the package.  We could
run it within a virtual X server environment, like that provided by the
xfvb-run (from the xfvb package).  This would work in the autobuilders.

-- 
Rafael