[arch-general] VTK package is outdated

[Andrejs Mivreņiks]

> 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/

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On Sun, 14 Jun 2015, at 15:07, Rashif Ray Rahman wrote:
> On 13 June 2015 at 17:33, Simon Hanna <j0k3ing at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Sat, Jun 13, 2015 at 1:25 PM, Nicola Bizzoca <nicola.bizzoca at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> 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 It is flagged as out of date as you can see here [1]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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