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Re: Bug#141352: ITP: xmedcon -- medical image conversion (fwd)



>>>>> "Tille," == Tille, Andreas <TilleA@rki.de> writes:

    > Hello, I hope people on Debian-Med noticed this ITP.
    > Roland is not a Debian maintainer yet and would need a
    > sponsor.  Anybody willing to check and sponsor his
    > packages?  I do not personally use this program and have no
    > medical images at hand.  But if noone wants to step in I'm
    > willing to sponsor his packages myself.

Roland - I'm an (x)medcon user and would be happy to sponsor you
for that package. 

Mike

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Michael A. Miller                               mmiller3@iupui.edu
  Imaging Sciences, Department of Radiology, IU School of Medicine

    > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
    > Date: Fri, 05 Apr 2002 18:59:00 +0200
    > From: Roland Marcus Rutschmann <Roland.M.Rutschmann@uni-oldenburg.de>
    > To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>
    > Subject: Bug#141352: ITP: xmedcon -- medical image conversion
    > Resent-Date: Fri, 05 Apr 2002 17:03:08 GMT
    > Resent-From: Roland Marcus Rutschmann <Roland.M.Rutschmann@uni-oldenburg.de>
    > Resent-To: debian-bugs-dist@lists.debian.org
    > Resent-cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org,
    >            wnpp@debian.org,
    >            wnpp@packages.qa.debian.org

    > Package: wnpp
    > Version: N/A; reported 2002-04-05
    > Severity: wishlist

    > * Package name    : xmedcon
    >   Version         : 0.7.5
    >   Upstream Author : Erik Nolf <erik.nolf@rug.ac.be>
    > * URL             : http://xmedcon.sourceforge.net/
    > * License         : (GPL, LGPL, mostly)
    >   Description     : medical image conversion
    >   This project stands for Medical Image Conversion. Released under the
    >   (L)GPL, it comes with the full C-source code of the library, a
    >   flexible command line utility and a neat graphical front-end using
    >   the Gtk+ toolkit. The currently supported formats are: Acr/Nema
    >   2.0,
    >   Analyze (SPM), DICOM 3.0, Ecat/Matrix 6.4, InterFile 3.3 and
    >   Gif87a/89a.
    >   .
    >  The program also allows to read unsupported files without
    >  compression, to print pixel values or to extract/reorder
    >  specified images. It is possible to retrieve the raw
    >  binary/ascii image arrays or to write GIF for desktop
    >  applications. 
    >  .
    >  This is the program version for X based on gtk+. Processes
    >  only one file at a time.

    > I split the original xmedcon in 4 packages (libmdc=shared lib,
    > libmdc-dev=developer files, medcon=command line/batch tool, and
    > xmedcon=gui)

    > The prelimanary packages are at:
    > http://neuro.psychologie.uni-oldenburg.de/debian/dists/unstable/main
    > (source and bin) Since this is my first debian package I
    > hope I haven't screwed up to bad.

    > There are 2 License Issues.(see README in libmdc) The code
    > for gif contains the patented LZW-stuff (it's not built on
    > shared libs) and the part of the code comes from a book
    > with unclear license.  The code for importing ecat has an
    > unclear license.

    > PNG is on the to do list to resolve the first problem. The
    > ecat part is more difficult since the only alternative
    > library I know of (libecat) is not free.

    > I can disable both of these options (and it still works for
    > my needs) but maybe it takes out the fun part for others.

    > A possible way is to put a "clean" libmdc in the official
    > debian distribution and let people who need more compile
    > the stuff themselve (like pine some time ago).

    > Other than that the packages seem to work.

    > Greetings,
    > Roland


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