Hi, I'm a Debian maintainer, and am a member of the Debian-Med project. Our project focuses on bringing medical software to Debian users. We've come across your software, BioImageSuite. We're still having some packaging issues (i.e. the "private" libraries the tarball carries), but there are some "minor" ones we could talk about. First of all, it's useless asking for a password to download GPLed software. I believe it might be a "violation" (it may be a harsh term probably) of the GPL itself (the distribution is not totally "free", but you must register first). Secondly, distributing this software in Debian will "undermine" your policy. In fact, Debian carries all the source files in its repositories, thus making your registration-is-needed-policy kinda useless. Thirdly, we could not assure that new versions of the software will be packaged. This is due to the name given to the tarball: bioimagesuite_latest_Linux_g++32.tar.gz This name, in fact, doesn't contain any version number we can use. In Debian we have "watch files", which warn us when new versions arrive. It will be impossible for us to make a proper watch file for your naming scheme. Please consider using something like: bioimagesuite-2.0.tar.gz This will ensure that Debian (and others as well) will have the chance to check if bioimagesuite is up to date. Kind regards, David -- . ''`. Debian maintainer | http://snipurl.com/qa_page/ : :' : Linuxer #334216 | http://www.hanskalabs.net/ `. `'` GPG: 1392B174 | http://www.debianizzati.org/ `- 2BAB C625 4E66 E7B8 450A C3E1 E6AA 9017 1392 B174
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