[med-svn] r1235 - trunk/packages/vista/trunk/debian

[tille at alioth.debian.org]

Author: tille
Date: 2008-01-31 17:08:03 +0000 (Thu, 31 Jan 2008)
New Revision: 1235

Modified:
   trunk/packages/vista/trunk/debian/README.Debian
   trunk/packages/vista/trunk/debian/changelog
Log:
Information about forks into README.Debian


Modified: trunk/packages/vista/trunk/debian/README.Debian
===================================================================
--- trunk/packages/vista/trunk/debian/README.Debian	2008-01-31 16:54:29 UTC (rev 1234)
+++ trunk/packages/vista/trunk/debian/README.Debian	2008-01-31 17:08:03 UTC (rev 1235)
@@ -1,6 +1,55 @@
 vista for Debian
 ----------------
 
-<possible notes regarding this package - if none, delete this file>
+The current situation about libvista development is unclear.  Here
+are some quotes from former authors:
 
- -- David Paleino <d.paleino at gmail.com>  Wed, 30 Jan 2008 19:43:07 +0100
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------
+[http://lists.debian.org/debian-med/2008/01/msg00165.html]
+
+Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 12:20:17 +0000
+From: Gert Wollny <gert at die.upm.es>
+To: debian-med at lists.debian.org
+Subject: Vista [Was: ODIN]
+
+Hi all,
+
+actually, the Vista project is not really under active development. Since
+in the MIA project I was only interested in the IO-stuff it got stripped
+down to exactly that part which is now called vistaio. On they way one
+of my colleagues (at that time) advised a student to add some Doxygen
+comments and re-branded the license from the original BSD-like to GPL (I
+have no idea if this is legal).
+
+Since the first implementation of MIA is kind of a mess, I rebooted the
+project last spring and reimplemented most of the image processing
+stuff. Since this project needs also to be run in MS Windows and be
+callable from MatLab and IDL, I made the vistaio part of the source
+tree, witch seems to be the only way to get save dynamic linking on this
+platform. To avoid naming conflicts the included vistaio creates a
+shared object "vistaio-minimal".
+Because of it's cross platform nature, mia2 uses CMake as build tool.
+
+I hope that sheds some light on the state of affairs, don't hesitated to
+contact me in case of further questions.
+---------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+---------------------------------------------------------------------
+[ http://lists.debian.org/debian-med/2008/01/msg00254.html ]
+Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 16:53:17 +0100
+From: Thies Jochimsen <thies at jochimsen.de>
+To: od1n-devel at lists.sourceforge.net
+Cc: David Paleino <d.paleino at gmail.com>, Debian-Med <debian-med at lists.debian.org>
+Subject: Re: [odin-devel] [LONG] Broken (lib)vista copyright
+
+Hi David,
+today I talked to Gabi Lohmann. The whole situation with vista is quiet a mess                                                                                                        (I am talking about the vista lib here ;-). There are several forks out
+there. Mine is one, another is the one by Gert Wollny you discovered at                                                                                                               sourceforge. In addition Gabi maintains another fork which is currently
+closed source but she currently considers making it free. Both forks, Gabi's                                                                                                          and Gert's, contain differing extension to the original vista library of
+University of British Columbia. I think, if vista should enter Debian, it can
+only be one of those forks actively maintained in the future. What do you
+think?
+
+---------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+ -- Andreas Tille <tille at debian.org>  Thu, 31 Jan 2008 18:03:07 +0100

Modified: trunk/packages/vista/trunk/debian/changelog
===================================================================
--- trunk/packages/vista/trunk/debian/changelog	2008-01-31 16:54:29 UTC (rev 1234)
+++ trunk/packages/vista/trunk/debian/changelog	2008-01-31 17:08:03 UTC (rev 1235)
@@ -1,6 +1,9 @@
 vista (2.1.7-1) unstable; urgency=low
 
+  [ David Paleino ]
   * Initial release (Closes: #nnnn)  <nnnn is the bug number of your ITP>
 
- -- David Paleino <d.paleino at gmail.com>  Wed, 30 Jan 2008 19:43:07 +0100
+  [ Andreas Tille ]
+  * Added information about forks to README.Debian
 
+ -- Andreas Tille <tille at debian.org>  Thu, 31 Jan 2008 18:07:28 +0100