[Debian-med-packaging] Doubts about packaging of OpenBUGS

[Dylan]

Hi Andreas,
I have some doubts about the packaging of OpenBUGS which are already
mentioned in the Fedora mailing list [1] and quickly in the Debian Science
mailing list [2].

To summarize, the main issue is about the core of OpenBUGS (libOpenBUGS.so)
because it is written in Object Pascal which requires a compiler framework
only available on MS Windows (Black Box). In the "source code" available on
their website, "libOpenBUGS.so" is given as binary already compiled.

I don't know Debian opinion about this issue. Maybe it is possible to
package libOpenBUGS.so as "non-free" and others OpenBUGS components as
"contrib"? Or it's unimaginable to have this software in Debian repository?

Best regards,
Dylan


[1] https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2011-June/152747.html
[2] https://lists.debian.org/debian-science/2008/12/msg00107.html
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