Regarding ITK4,
Being close to the ITK development team,
I will be happy to help with the process of transitioning to ITK4.
If anything needs to be coordinated with ITK upstream, we will be glad to
collaborate.
Best
Luis
On Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 2:27 AM, Emmanuel Promayon <
emmanuel.proma...@imag.fr> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
>
> Furthermore I would like to mention another page[3] with lots of
>>> information
>>> about Debian Med packages. Besides the list of RC bugs you can also
>>> see packages that can not be built on a Debian architecture,
>>> packages that are not allowed to migrate from unstable to testing
>>> (and thus won't be included in the next release) and packages with a
>>> new upstream version. I think those packages need some care as well.
>>>
>>
>> +1
>>
>
> I am trying to understand the mechanism of the "excuses" given for the
> package CamiTK that is in the list of blocked packages in [1].
> As I am a very inexperienced in debian packaging, I am not sure what
> action can be taken.
> In the great page [2], the excuses for CamiTK point to a problem with
> insightoolkit, which itself mention gdcm which now mention not yet built on
> sparc and ia64 (which I suppose are the show stoppers).
> But a while ago gdcm excuses were about the fact gdcm was part of a
> transition (itself mentioning mono or something).
>
> What can be done concretely to fix this problem?
>
> If there is anything in my reach, I will try to help (might not be for the
> advent calendar, but maybe for the spring cleaning!).
>
> Another question, may be more addressed to the itk/vtk/gdcm specialists:
> is it time to switch the dependencies from insighttoolkit to
> insighttoolkit4?
>
> And as Andreas always encouraged me to ask question even if they looked
> silly, here it is:
> More generally, where can I see what lib version are deprecated or which
> version is advocated in Jessie/next stable?
>
> For instance the CamiTK package depends on huge libs such as qt, vtk,
> insighttoolkit and gdcm. When is the best time to try a transition to Qt5,
> Vtk6, itk4 and gdcm2.4?
>
> Kind regards and thanks for all the efforts,
> Mahnu
>
> [1] http://udd.debian.org/dmd.cgi?email=debian-med-packaging@
> lists.alioth.debian.org
> [2] http://release.debian.org/migration/testing.pl?package=camitk
>
>
