[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#1038453: aeskulap: Is this package still desirable to have in Debian?

[Simon McVittie]

Source: aeskulap
Severity: normal
Tags: trixie sid

I stumbled across aeskulap while checking which packages still depend on
various GNOME-2-era (pre-2012) libraries.

According to its linked upstream website
<https://aeskulap.nongnu.org/>, aeskulap is a viewer for DICOM images,
used in medical imaging. Its most recent release seems to have been in
March 2006, and the version in Debian is a git snapshot from 2019 (which
seems to be from some unoffical fork, I can't find any indication on
Savannah that the nongnu.org version has a git repo).

Is this package still useful?

Is it still maintained upstream by someone? If the Debian package is
tracking a maintained fork rather than the original upstream maintainers'
version, then updating the Homepage field to point to that fork would
be useful for people doing QA.

Thanks,
    smcv