[Debian-med-packaging] FW4SPL package

Wed Nov 2 11:26:46 UTC 2016

Hi,

This is an answer to a private email discussion I started with Andreas
Tille <andreas at an3as.eu>. I'm sorry I started this discussion outside of
the debian mailing-list but I was not well aware of the right way to
contact you. Thank you btw Andreas for your kind answer. :)

So just to sum up our previous exchange, I was asking about the removal
of the package fw4spl, which sadly was removed few weeks ago because of
a lack of support from our side. The previous maintainer, Corentin
Desfarges, left the company two months ago. He was a student engineer
and packaging fw4spl was one of its tasks at some point but then he was
assigned to work on other stuff. So he didn't have much time left to
work on packaging.

I am actually a senior developer of FW4SPL, so as author of the
software, it will be much easier for me to fix the bugs and to comply to
the debian packaging policy. There is also a strong motivation from our
team leader to be present in DebianMed so I will have spare time to work
on this regularly.

So if you agree to welcome us again despite our past mistakes and lack
of support, I would be pleased to be the new maintainer of the debian
package. Of course I can also take care of the packaging of the camp
library which is a dependency of FW4SPL.

However I must admit I start from scratch in the Debian world. I already
registered alioth.debian.org this morning. I started to read all the
required documentation and I will come back to you when needed, since
you gently offered your help.

All the critical should be fixed now but they are for sure not yet
documented in the debian changelog. I'll do this as soon as I learn how
I do this. Do you have any deadline for the next Debian release ?

Thanks again,

Kind regards,
-- 
*Flavien BRIDAULT*
Ingénieur de Recherche

fbridault at ircad.fr

*IRCAD France*
1, place de l'Hôpital - 67091 Strasbourg Cedex - FRANCE

http://www.ircad.fr/ <http://www.ircad.fr/>

Le 06/10/2016 à 09:23, Andreas Tille a écrit :
> Hi Flavien,
> 
> sorry for my late reply since I was on vacation.  It is always a good
> idea to contact the Debian Med team instead of single persons in private
> e-mail.  I also admit that I do not feel not competent in all those
> issues and thus I'd recommend you fully quote me in your response to
> this mail to debian-med-packaging at lists.alioth.debian.org.
> 
> On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 11:40:46AM +0200, Flavien Bridault wrote:
>> Hello Andreas,
>>
>> My name is Flavien Bridault, I'm a research engineer at IRCAD. I've just
>> been asked to contact you about the removal of fw4spl package.
>>
>> As you may know, Corentin Desfarges was the previous maintainer but he
>> left us few weeks ago. I will probably be in charge of handling that now.
> 
> I have not heard from Corentin since some time.  It would be really
> great if you could take over.  I wonder if you also could care for the
> camp library which was maintained by Corentin as well.
> 
>> We do realize that several bugs were not marked as resolved, but
>> actually we have already fixed some of them in the meantime (boost 1.58,
>> vtk5, libpng16, 404, etc...). On top of that, we would have like to
>> propose a major update (0.11.0 instead of 0.9.2.3) that will solve many
>> things as well. We just need few days more to bundle everything properly
>> and propose a new package.
>>
>> Is there any chance for us to update the package, reopen the bugs and
>> process them properly ? Or do we have to start from scratch the procedure ?
> 
> I guess it is to late now since the package was removed from Debian
> unstable.  However, if you intend to keep on maintaining fw4spl in
> Debian I'd willing to support this attempt by sponsoring the package and
> helping you with the packaging process if help is needed.  If you
> confirm that all critical bugs are closed (and document this in
> debian/changelog) we could upload the package to the Debian new queue.
> Its not to late for the next Debian release but we should hurry up in
> any case.
> 
> In case you want to work on the package your first step is to register
> on alioth.debian.org as described in the Debian Med policy document[1].
>  
> Kind regards
> 
>      Andreas.
> 
> [1] http://debian-med.alioth.debian.org/docs/policy.html
> 

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