[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#724935: Imaging experts opinion wanted: Should we keep ctn?

[Andreas Tille]

Hi,

On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 12:04:09PM +0200, Mathieu Malaterre wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 9:04 AM, Andreas Tille <andreas at an3as.eu> wrote:
> > I remember that I had a hard time when I updated ctn the last time which
> > was five years ago.  Upstream did not even issued a new version since
> > ten years.  So I wonder what you might think about ctn:  Should I simply
> > update the package to todays Debian standards of packaging or is this
> > rather a waste of time and we have better software to deal with the
> > tasks that could be done with ctn?
> 
> I think we should move on to mirctn:
> 
> https://sourceforge.net/projects/mirctn/files/mirctn/
> 
> AFAIK ctn from debian and mirctn are compatible, mainly thanks to:
> 
> http://patch-tracker.debian.org/patch/series/view/ctn/3.0.6-13/20_mysql_4.2.patch
> 
> CTN may not be as active as dcmtk, but still being used AFAIK.

Any volunteer for this?  Specifically since #724935 ctn is in danger to
be removed and I somehow do not feel my time spent very well to sort out
issues like this on unmaintained software like ctn.

Kind regards

       Andreas.

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