[fedora-medical] Last updates

Andreas Tille andreas at an3as.eu
Thu May 23 14:45:53 UTC 2013


Hi Mario,

On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 01:25:57PM +0200, Mario Ceresa wrote:
> Sorry if I answer only now: indeed collaboration between the two medical
> groups is very welcome: I personally have studied/ported Debian's patches
> in a number of cases :)

:-)
 
> The wiki page is more like a roadmap for me than a list of packaged medical
> software. How do you plan to automatically generate the pages in Debian?

I do not *plan* to generate the packages lists.  These lists ([1],[2]
and lots of others) *are* automatically generated for years that way!

> Maybe we have a list of packages by group somewhere and I don't know?

Well, I doubt this.  The generation is based on the content of the
Ultimate Debian Database.  In the first time I have used the files
Packages.gz (which is a general index about packages used by apt in
Debian and Fedora will have some equivalent + tools to parse it).

> On another side, I had some news from Seg3D mantainers on  packaging
> issues, but I'm not sure if they are willing to accept patches related to
> that (I sent a separate mail to the list for that), so I'm a bit puzzled...
> What do you usually do in Debian in these situations?

Hmmm, if you are simply ignored you can not do much.  What we generally
do and what really helps is starting e-mails like this:

  Hi, I'm writing you on behalf of the Debian Med team which intends to
  assemble all software that is relevant in field <foo> straight inside
  Debian to make it easily available for users running Debian.  You
  can see a list of what we just assembled here ([1],[2],...)  If you
  like to be your software integrated into Debian as well and your
  project should pop up on this list please ...

We are in the good position that the lists to present became long over
the last years and thus we are able to make some impression that
upstream can hardly ignore.

Otherwise I do not have any idea.

Kind regards

     Andreas.

 
[1] http://debian-med.alioth.debian.org/tasks/imaging
[2] http://debian-med.alioth.debian.org/tasks/imaging-dev


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