Dear Maintainer,
While setting up the python3-vtk9 package in unstable or testing, one gets the
following message at the "Setting up" phase:
Setting up python3-vtk9 (9.3.0+dfsg1-1+b2) ...
/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/vtkmodules/util/vtkMethodParser.py:304: SyntaxWarning: invalid escape sequence '\S'
patn = re.compile (" \S")
Cheers,
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
vtk9, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to 1079541@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Drew Parsons <dparsons@debian.org> (supplier of updated vtk9 package)
(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive
administrators by mailing ftpmaster@ftp-master.debian.org)
Format: 1.8
Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2026 04:41:09 +0100
Source: vtk9
Architecture: source
Version: 9.5.2+dfsg3-2
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Debian Science Maintainers <debian-science-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org>
Changed-By: Drew Parsons <dparsons@debian.org>
Closes: 1079541 1100766 1101916 1125140
Changes:
vtk9 (9.5.2+dfsg3-2) unstable; urgency=medium
.
* Team upload.
* extra VTK modules support paraview. Closes: #1100766
* don't configure xdmf3 (i.e. IOParallelXdmf3) on 32-bit arches,
where vtk's copy of xdmf3 fails to build. See Bug#1126484
(upstream paraview Issue #22630)
* enable RenderingFreeTypeFontConfig. Closes: #1101916
* build docs in arch-independent build only. Closes: #1125140
Move doc generating packages doxygen-latex, ghostscript,
gnuplot-nox, graphviz to Build-Depends-Indep <!nodoc>.
* escape sequences in vtkMethodParser.py are fixed. Closes: #1079541
* Standards-Version: 4.7.3
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Not yet fixed (or again broken):
Setting up python3-vtk9 (9.5.2+dfsg4-3)…
/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/vtkmodules/web/testing.py:687: SyntaxWarning: invalid escape sequence '\.'
fnamePattern = re.compile("([^\.\/\\\]+)\.py")
/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/vtkmodules/web/testing.py:687: SyntaxWarning: "\." is an invalid escape sequence. Such sequences will not work in the future. Did you mean "\\."? A raw stringis also an option.
fnamePattern = re.compile("([^\.\/\\\]+)\.py")
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
vtk9, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to 1079541@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Maximiliano Curia <maxy@debian.org> (supplier of updated vtk9 package)
(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive
administrators by mailing ftpmaster@ftp-master.debian.org)
Format: 1.8
Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2026 20:30:00 +0200
Source: vtk9
Architecture: source
Version: 9.6.2+ds-1
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Debian Science Maintainers <debian-science-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org>
Changed-By: Maximiliano Curia <maxy@debian.org>
Closes: 1035426 1079541 1119821 1119822 1119823 1119824 1126484 1140541 1142155
Changes:
vtk9 (9.6.2+ds-1) unstable; urgency=medium
.
* Team upload.
* New repacked upstream version 9.6.2+ds using +ds suffix.
* Build for all supported python3 versions.
* Use guess-concurrency to limit parallel workers.
* Fix doxygen documentation path for versioned build directory.
* Set writable HOME and XDG_CACHE_HOME for Fontconfig.
* Fix invalid escape sequence in testing.py. (Closes: #1079541, #1142155)
* Backport upstream GLTF security fixes:
- CVE-2025-57106: Fix invalid access in vtkGLTFDocumentLoader.
(Closes: #1119821)
- CVE-2025-57107: Fix invalid access in vtkGLTFDocumentLoader.
(Closes: #1119822)
- CVE-2025-57108: Fix invalid vector access in vtkGLTFImporter.
(Closes: #1119823)
- CVE-2025-57109: Fix invalid access in vtkGLTFImporter.
(Closes: #1119824)
* libvtk9-dev no longer ships uncompilable headers. (Closes: #1035426)
* Disable IOParallelXdmf3 on 32-bit architectures. (Closes: #1126484)
* Update debian/copyright. (Closes: #1140541)
* Fix manpage filenames and install section for wrapper tools.
* Do not install internal h5hut config.h into public headers.
* Fix character encoding in Sequence.h.
* Remove external CDN script reference in GeometryViewer example.
* Deduplicate dependencies in debian/control.
* Drop unused debian/libvtk9-dev.lintian-overrides.
* Register HTML documentation with doc-base.
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