[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#689951: Package appears to be non-free

[Emmanuel Promayon]

Hello Andreas,

First sorry for not commenting on the bug, I have to find a better way 
to interact with the process, and thank you for all the comments.

The use of tetgen is not a fundamental feature of CamiTK (and anyway 
less important than being in contrib).
Therefore the code depending on it can be either removed completely from 
the CamiTK package (this is an additional plugin). And the use of the 
debian packaged version is an even better solution, as you suggested. In 
this case will CamiTK remain in contrib?

What is my deadline to do this without offending anyone?

Kind regards,


On 23/10/12 16:32, Andreas Tille wrote:
> Hi Emmanuel,
>
> the package camitk received a release critical bug[1] which you possibly
> did not noticed.  It would be great if you would read the history of the
> bug log[1] and comment on the usage of Debian packaged tetgen which
> would enable us to move the package to contrib rather than non-free.
>
> Please note that the package will be removed from Debian if we do not
> find a reasonable solution.
>
> Kind regards
>
>         Andreas.
>
> [1] http://bugs.debian.org/689951
>
> On Mon, Oct 08, 2012 at 01:56:43PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote:
>> On Mon, Oct 08, 2012 at 12:12:35PM +0200, Mathieu Malaterre wrote:
>>>
>>> Actually all I did noticed is that tetgen is in non-free in debian already:
>>> http://packages.qa.debian.org/t/tetgen.html
>>
>> It might make sense to verify whether a removal of tetgen from camitk
>> and rather use the Debian packaged version is possible which would make
>> camitk rather contrib than non-free.
>>
>>> Christophe are you in touch with upstream ?
>>
>> Even if Charles mentioned that there are other non-free pieces in the license
>> contacting upstream about a DFSG free license might not harm in anyway.
>>
>> Kind regards
>>
>>         Andreas.
>

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