Re: Bug#387183: ctn: Cannot open ANY dicom file on AMD64
tags 387183 upstream help
thanks
Hello Michael,
On Tue, September 12, 2006 21:37, Michael Hanke wrote:
> I'm packaging a DICOM -> NIfTI converter which uses the CTN library. I
> had to discover that the converter does not work on AMD64 machine, while
> everything is ok on i386.
Thanks for your report. I've heard some other (more casual) comments
about 64-bit incompatibilities before. I've passed these on to upstream,
upstream has been promising a new release for over a year now but to no
avail.
Since the current packaged version is from 2002 and has a number of
other problems, I'm quite inclined to *not* release ctn with etch unless
there's new upstream work. I think this is the extra drop that was
needed to take that decision.
Of course, anyone willing to hack on CTN to bring it up to speed with
current environments is welcome. But I think at this point it's not that
sensible to try to keep CTN alive in Debian without upstream support or
other longer-time commitments to code maintenance; especially since the
popcon numbers are not impressive and I don't use it myself anymore.
I'm cc'ing this to debian-med; maybe someone there is interested in
reviving CTN. If a release manager reads this - CTN can be removed from
testing for the time being.
Thijs
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