[Debian-med-packaging] Remark for acacia (Was: r16651 - in trunk/packages/acacia/trunk/debian: . bin source)

[Tim Booth]

Hi Andreas,

I'm not giving up on Wolfgang just yet.  I did a bit more cyberstalking
of him and found that he is still actively committing on GitHub and his
newer e-mail address is whoschek at cloudera.com, so I'll try him again on
that address.  I can't believe that someone so consistently active in
OSS won't have something to say on this licensing issue.

As for Acacia, I've handed it over to Soon for testing since I know it
starts up but right now I can't promise it actually processes any data.

Cheers,

TIM

On Thu, 2014-04-10 at 21:02 +0100, Andreas Tille wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 01:18:12PM +0000, Timothy Booth wrote:
> > 
> > +        # ssj.jar = http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~simardr/ssj/ssj-source.html
> > +        #  needs Tcode and various jars, plus:
> > +                http://statistik.wu-wien.ac.at/unuran/download.html
> > +                which wants:
> > +                   http://statistik.wu-wien.ac.at/software/RngStreams/
> > +
> > +Also, SSJ might or might not need libdsol1-xml-java which in turn is a
> > +PITA. See readme.tim in libdsol1-xml-java.
> > +
> > +SSJ definitely does need colt, so let's package colt before going any further.
> > +Ah - Andreas already started:
> > +http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/debian-med/trunk/packages/libcolt-java/trunk/
> 
> That's not only started but since some years in Debian but unfortunately
> non-free.  You were involved in the licensing discussion and it was
> great that you contacted the colt author.  Since there was no response
> until now I personally would consider it more promising if you would
> find a way to replace the view "easy to replace" infected files from
> HEP.  I have the impression that colt is not maintained any more.
> 
> > +Hmmm - the Debian folder here still has files unmodified from King.
> 
> King is also packaged for Debian but has also its issues (#706922)
> and seems to be unmaintained as well since I never got any response
> from the authors about libjogl1 replacement.
> 
> > Oh yes, I was stuck on libdsol1-xml-java.  Back to that.
> 
> > +It looks like there is a newer Acacia binary but no source.  No matter, I shall press on with 1.52.
> > +
> > +...
> > +
> > +Right, by the looks of it I can build ssj.jar without unuran jni support, which makes life simpler.  I may as
> > +well compile chrono support as this just needs standard system libs.
> > +Also not sure why I was working on libdsol1-xml-java as it is not in Acacia and not needed.
> 
> As far as I understood it is needed by libssj-java.  If this is wrong
> we should drop a note in libdsol1-xml-java SVN.
> 
> > +So, that should be it...
> 
> :-)
> 
> I try to push as hard as possible to get your final target into Debian.
> 
> Many thanks for your initial work
> 
>     Andreas.
> 
> 

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