[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#1038453: Anyone interested in aeskulap DICOM viewer (Was: Bug#1038453: aeskulap: Is this package still desirable to have in Debian?)

[Andreas Tille]

Hi,

aeskulap is dead upstream for a long time Alexander Pipelka (in CC)
maintained a Github repository to enable maintaining the code but the
last commit was a Debian patch.  So it seems we will not see any
relevant upstream work in the foreseable future.

Since the package is blocking removal of some GTK+ 2 libraries its
probably tine to say goodbye to this package in Debian.  If nobody
will volunteer to do the porting work described below I'll ask for
removal in about two weeks.

Kind regards
     Andreas.

Am Sun, Jun 18, 2023 at 04:34:39PM +0100 schrieb 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
> 
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