[Debian-med-packaging] Please reduce migration time of camitk

[Andreas Tille]

Hi,

I would like to ask you to reduce the migration time to five days for
the camitk source package.  Upstream has given some reasons on the
Debian Med mailing list which I like to sum up here.  I hope that
sending a mail to debian-release at l.d.o is what you mean in the
announcement of Fri, 26 Sep 2014 under the item "Testing Migration and
Security Review".  I could also file an according bug report if this
might fit better.

Thanks for your work on the Debian release

        Andreas.

----- Forwarded message from Nicolas SAUBAT <nicolas.saubat at imag.fr> -----

Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2014 10:50:33 +0100
From: Nicolas SAUBAT <nicolas.saubat at imag.fr>
To: debian-med at lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: CamiTK 3.4.0 packaging

>> This CamiTK release has a much better test suite
>> (with over 190 integration tests), which improves the QA compared to
>> the previous release. All tests are now enabled in d/rules.

The new CamiTK version 3.4.0 features improvements for the user, mainly on image handling, which is, according to us essential in the medical field:
- Improved DICOM support (still using the C++ library of Mathieu Malaterre, already packaged in Debian[1]). We think a good reading of DICOM images is important.
- Support for any image position / orientation in 3D space, information read from medical scanners[2].
- New service Frame, which allows to refer a component position relatively to any other component, in 3D space. This feature has mainly been requested in the medical robotic field.

Also, to increase software stability, we improved our bug solving policy, by increasing our automatic tests number (which has an impact on the number of tests run during the packaging task) and using
a new bug tracking system[3].

Regarding the Debian packaging process, we think this new version of CamiTK, in addition to its new features, is more stable.
As Emmanuel said, we increased the number of test run after configuration - compilation up to 191 (compared to less than 20 tests done in the packaging of the 3.3.2 version).
Also, we updated the tests done by autopkgtest (debian/tests), after installation of the package. These ones expect more information in the 3.4 version than the previous 3.3.x versions.

Finally, it took us a bit time for this last packaging, as we tested our software in order to solve important bugs before releasing it.
We apologize if it's a bit late for integrating this new version in Jessie, but we understand the migration process, and we'll follow your decision.

Thanks again,
Regards,
Nicolas

[1] https://packages.qa.debian.org/g/gdcm.html
[2] https://forge.imag.fr/plugins/mediawiki/wiki/camitk/index.php/Images_orientation_in_CamiTK
[3] https://bugzilla-timc.imag.fr/


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