If I don't do anything in another two weeks I'll drop it to AUR where it might be better taken care of.

What about packages like opencascade[1] that depend on VTK? Also it might take quite a long time to build from AUR. I think it's better to keep it in the community repository as is for now. I might take a look at it and try to fix build issues at some point. [1] https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/opencascade/ -- Andrejs Mivreņiks PGP Key Fingerprint: 3872 5DEB BCA5 9460 09B2 E867 F34B C7DA D782 DAB8 On Sun, 14 Jun 2015, at 15:07, Rashif Ray Rahman wrote:

On 13 June 2015 at 17:33, Simon Hanna wrote:

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On Sat, Jun 13, 2015 at 1:25 PM, Nicola Bizzoca wrote:

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Hi, The VTK package present in the community repository is not updated to the last version 6.2.0 http://www.kitware.com/blog/home/post/858

Unfortunately I'm new to Arch and I don't know how to contact the package maintainer

It is flagged as out of date as you can see here [1] I guess the maintainer has his reasons for not updating. Probably compatibility with other packages.

VTK has some open tasks in our bugtracker and, the last time I checked, does not build as-is for the latest 6.x release. The previous maintainer did the work on getting 6.x to build so it should be fine for the time-being.

Resolving the open issues and updating it will require a bit of time that I haven't managed but anyone's welcome to help and I'll apply any necessary changes. If I don't do anything in another two weeks I'll drop it to AUR where it might be better taken care of.

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