[Pkg-scicomp-devel] debian package : VTK 5.2

[Ondrej Certik]

On Thu, Dec 25, 2008 at 6:25 PM, A. Maitland Bottoms <bottoms at debian.org> wrote:
> Mathieu Malaterre writes:
>  > On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 10:51 PM, Steve M. Robbins <steve at sumost.ca> wrote:
>  > > Coincidentally, a couple of days ago I asked the vtk maintainer
>  > > whether he would be interested in group maintenance of VTK.  However,
>  > > I suggested pkg-scicomp rather than debian-med as VTK isn't
>  > > particularly "medical".
>
> I'm hoping some pkg-scicomp or debian-med types would entertain collaborating
> in a git-based repository. Certainly I have had a look at svn-buildpackage
> and it has appeal, but VTK has a lot of dependencies to manage.
>
> In addition to supporting Debian's Experimental, Unstable-Testing-Stable,
> there is also backports to be thought of, and perhpas tweaking for other
> Debian derived distributions. Keep in mind that Debian's ability to support
> multiple versions of components such as Qt and Python has added some complications
> to the expectations in VTK that there is only one version of a component on
> any given system to build with. It appears that git branching support would
> be helpful in this case.
>
> But what really sold me on git is that much wildly-optimistic speculative packaging
> concepts could be tried in local git branches without cluttering up the main
> packaging branches. This may be helpful in improving Java support, and in dealing
> with any issues arising from Python 3.0 upgrades.
>
>  >  svn co https://gdcm.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/gdcm/Sandbox/debian-med/vtk
>
> I'll be using that while I get used to working with git-buildpackage.

I am from the pkg-scicomp team: let's use git, it's much better than svn.

Ondrej