Want to package FISH for Debian - is there any source for the documentation
Hi Todd,
I'm writing you on behalf of the Debian Med team which attempts to
package Free Software which is relevant for medicine and biology for
official Debian. For people working in the field of biology this
page[1] might be relevant to get an overview about what we are doing.
I stumbled upon your software FISH[2] when having a look at ngopt[3]
since FISH is included there. In Debian we are following the principle
of modularity and thus I want to create a separate package fish for
Debian. When downloading the source I noticed that in the doc/
directory only *.pdf, *.ps and *.html is provided while the source
is obviosly in LaTeX. Unfortunately Debian ftpmasters will refuse
to include "binaries without source" and this kind of documentation
belongs to this category unfortunately.
So my question is: Are you able to provide the LaTeX source for the
documentation under a free license? Otherwise I would need to strip the
source from the download tarball and direct the users to your web page.
Kind regards and thanks for providing FISH as Free Software
Andreas.
[1] http://blends.debian.org/med/tasks/bio
[2] http://labs.bio.unc.edu/Vision/FISH/
[3] http://code.google.com/p/ngopt/
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