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

[Andreas Tille]

Hi Dylan,

On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 06:36:59PM +0200, Dylan wrote:
> Hi Andreas,
> I have some doubts about the packaging of OpenBUGS

I have not even thought about this software.  Why do you think this is a
topic for Debian Med?

Kind regards

     Andreas.

PS: There is no reason in CCing me. :-)

> 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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