[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#879556: ITP: beads -- 2-DE electrophoresis gel image spot detection

[Andreas Tille]

Hi Olivier,

On Mon, Nov 06, 2017 at 05:15:28PM +0100, Olivier Langella wrote:
> thank you for your interest in beads.

You are welcome.

> Actually, the beads source code is now hosted at :
> https://sourcesup.renater.fr/projects/beads/
> the git repository is:
> git clone git://git.renater.fr/beads.git
> 
> I've left Ubuntu's PPA and I'm maintaining a debian repository with
> "reprepro" here :
> http://pappso.inra.fr/bioinfo/install_debian_stretch.php

Whan I created the beads package for official Debian it was intended to
make this kind of private repository superfluous since beads is now in
official Debian.  Unfortunately I obviously did not found the latest
version.

The situation is now as follows: beads-1.1.13 is ported to Qt5 (patches
are available in the Debian packaging repository[1]) and available for
Debian unstable and testing.  It would be pretty simple to provide a
backport for Stretch but I think it makes more sense to do this with the
latest upstream version.

Since I based the packaging on your initial packaging attempt I kept
your ID as Uploader of the package.  If you intend to work on the
official packaging you are more than welcome.  The procedure how we work
together inside the Debian Med team is described in our team policy[2].
I would really welcome if you would maintain beads (and possibly other
software you are providing on your private mirror) in the official
Debian distribution and its granted that I provide as much help as
needed for this.
 
> The current version is 1.1.16 and I've made a lot of modifications recently
> (using an inhouse library to generate ODS report files
> https://sourcesup.renater.fr/projects/libodsstream/ ).

In other words:  To update beads to version 1.1.16 libodsstream needs to
be packaged first, right?
 
> I can help if you want.

Thanks a lot for the offer to help.  As I said above I would consider it
as an ideal situation if we would team-maintain your software in
official Debian.  Lets see what is needed to do so and replace your
private repository by the official Debian mirror.

Kind regards
 
   Andreas.


[1] https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/debian-med/beads.git/tree/debian/patches 
[2] https://debian-med.alioth.debian.org/docs/policy.html

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