[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#854837: Package dicompyler does not work

[Andreas Tille]

Hi Vojtech,

On Fri, Mar 10, 2017 at 10:23:35AM +0100, Vojtech Kulvait wrote:
> If I were about to take care about this package in upstream what should I
> do and what is the development timetable?

I'm not really sure what you need to take over upstream - probably the
owner of the project needs to grant you commit permissions to the
repository.

Regarding the Debian package it is sufficient to develop a (quilt-)patch
that lets the program work.  If you prefer SVN over Git I can move the
packaging to Git but you can also simply sent a patch here to this bug.
The development time table is quite clear and the status page

   https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/dicompyler

says:

   Marked for autoremoval on 11 March: 854837

   Version of dicompyler is marked for autoremoval from testing on Sat
   11 Mar 2017. It is affected by 854837. You should try to prevent the
   removal by fixing these RC bugs.

So well, this is tomorrow which is a bit dense to meet the next stable
release.  Removal from testing means the package will not be shipped
with the next official Debian stable release.  However, in case the
package gets fixed I'd happily provide it via backports.debian.org and
if the development continues in the next stable Debian release (usually
about two years are inbetween two stable releases).

BTW, there is one way to deliver the current dicompyler in next Debian
Stable if you say:  Well, it is buggy but has some practical use anyway.
In this case we could lower the severity of the bug to "important" which
is not release critical.  Since I'm no user of the package I can not
really decide what severity is correct in this case.

Hope this explanation is helpful

     Andreas.

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