Comment # 8 on bug 1172723 from Atri Bhattacharya

(In reply to Stefan Br�ns from comment #7)
> Although Atri does a good job in general, the VTK 9.0 update was IMHO rushed
> (and thats the reason I did not accept the SR, unfortunately someone else
> did ...):
> 
> 1- Fails to build on ARM

A patch would be very helpful, but it would need to be either accepted or
acceptable upstream. I would like to avoid carrying patches that require
extensive rebasing over and over.

Btw, this isn't only about this patch: vtk and paraview had been carrying
multiple patches for a year before I went and poked upstream about them (a look
at the changelog should make it clear what I am talking about).

> 2. Java bindings are removed on 15.1, but devel dependencies still reference
> Java package
> 

Yes, sorry about that. My first instinct was to require cmake >= 3.12 and make
it unresolvable for Leap 15.1 which probably would have been better.

In any case, I would appreciate if you actually __decline__ the sr the next
time... You had ample time and opportunity to do so for this.

> and most importantly:
> 3. VTK 9.0 is API incompatible to FreeCAD and CSXCAD, the two users of VTK
> in TW.

Surely, that's for these apps to catch up. Thankfully, this is not one of the
policies for TW; otherwise, it will make updating any package quite difficult.