On Wed, Aug 03, 2022 at 10:42:08PM +0200, Sebastian Ramacher wrote: > Source: siconos > Version: 4.3.1+dfsg-2 > Severity: serious > X-Debbugs-Cc: sramac...@debian.org > Tags: sid bookworm > Control: block 1016597 by -1 > User: gl...@debian.org > Usertags: vtk6_vtk7_removal > > Based on #1013156 and similar bugs: > > Dear maintainer, > > Debian archive has now three major versions of the VTK (The > Visualization Toolkit) package: vtk6, vtk7 and vtk9. Old vesions > (vtk6 and vtk7) are not supported by upstream and the package itself > is not easy for the mainance. > > We aim to drop old and deprecated version vtk6 and vtk7 packages before > the freeze of the Debian 12 Bookworm. Your package depends on vtk6 or > vtk7. Thus we ask you to migrate it to the latest vtk9 package.
Two observations regarding the usage of VTK in siconos: There is WITH_VTK in siconos that does not seem to build with VTK 9, but it's anyway not enabled. The only current usage of VTK is python3-vtk7 in siconos-mechanics-tools. This might need upstrream fixes like https://github.com/siconos/siconos/pull/437 > Cheers cu Adrian
