Hi,
under
http://linuxmednews.com/linuxmednews/1098376300/index_html
a new realease of FreeMED is announced. While FreeMED is also a
target for
Debian-Med I think the even more interesting part of this message is the
billing system REMITT. In the past I tried to help out Jeff
Buchbinder to
enhance the quality of FreeB which was either an alternative billing
system
or just the predecessor of Remitt - unfortunately I was not able to find
any documentation about the relation of FreeB and REMITT.
The current status of FreeB from a Debian point of view is the following:
1. I offered Jeff to sponsor his FreeB packages which means he is the
maintainer of the package (which is an optimal situation to have
one of the upstream developers as maintainers) and I would care for
the upload.
2. I did some patches to his packaging stuff which are available at
http://people.debian.org/~tille/packages/freeb/
in August this year but Jeff did not reacted until today what he
thinks about these patches and whether we should do the upload.
(I would love to hear his OK even if it is free software but it
is kind of normal politeness to ask for it.)
The further plan for FreeMed is the following: Check the Debian packages
which are provided by the FreeMed people and migrate them step by
steep to
the Debian mirror.
In April this year did some analysis on the Debian packages which are
provided by the FreeMed people (thanks for this service) at
http://apt.freemedsoftware.com/
which might be a little bit outdated now, but not really wrong in
principle:
1. djview:
~> apt-cache policy djview
djview:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: 3.5.12-5
Version Table:
3.5.12-5 0
499 http://debian.tu-bs.de testing/main Packages
50 http://debian.tu-bs.de unstable/main Packages
--> This is available in Debian and can be removed once Sarge is
out
2. freeb
-> I think the necessary work is done (see
http://people.debian.org/~tille/packages/freeb/ )
3. freemed and freemed_modules
-> Polishing this package would be the final step
4. libbit-vector-perl
This is not yet contained in Debian. Somebody should step in here
and file a RFP bug to wnpp in the way it is described at
http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/#l1
This should include a link to the packages at
apt.freemedsoftware.com.
If no developer steps in ask for anybody who might sponsor your
package
to get it propagated to the official Debian mirror. This would
save the
FreeMed people from the task to provide it from their private
mirror and
get the package under control of the Bug Tracking System.
5. ~> apt-cache policy libdate-calc-perl
libdate-calc-perl:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: 5.3-1
Version Table:
5.3-1 0
499 http://debian.tu-bs.de testing/main Packages
50 http://debian.tu-bs.de unstable/main Packages
--> Same as 1.
6. php4-pear-modules
I would proceed like described at item 4. ...
7. phpwebtool
Same as in item 4.
I think the best way to start is with 4., 6. and 7. (libbit-vector-perl,
php4-pear-modules, phpwebtool) to try to gain profit from the Debian
community.
This would save time of the FreeMed people to concentrate on their own
topic,
the freeb and freemed packages.
If anybody feels oblilged to start with one of these tasks and
something remains
unclear feel free to ask for further details.
Kind regards
Andreas.