Re: ODIN/Vista

[Thies Jochimsen <thies@jochimsen.de>]

Dear Andreas and DebianMed developers,

as the maintainer of Odin, I would be very happy to see an official Vista 
package in Debian. For now, I will remove the link to the download from my 
page to avoid further confusion. Those who need this ancient format will know 
where to find it, anyway.

In my initial post, I stated that I provide unofficial Odin packages for 
stable. Currently, this is not true because of a 'bug' in the Blitz++ package 
of etch. However, this has been fixed, thanks to Andreas, in the upcoming 
libblitz* packages.
Therefore it should be relatively straightforward to create an official 
package of Odin. I am already very busy maintaining Odin and I am not very 
familiar with the Debian packaging procedures/policies so I cannot manage 
this myself. However, I would be happy to provide any help necessary to build 
such a package...

Best wishes, Thies




On Monday 17 December 2007 09:48, Andreas Tille wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Dec 2007, Andreas Tille wrote:
> > in a thread starting at
> >
> >    http://lists.debian.org/debian-med/2006/08/msg00003.html
> >
> > I gave the answer I'm quoting below.  This was about 1.5 years ago
> > and I lost completely track to ODIN packagin into Debian-Med.  I
> > just added this package to our prospective packages list to keep
> > some record.  I would like to know whether anybody is able to work
> > on a real Debian integration.
>
> In my last mail I forgot one more question: on
>
>       http://od1n.sourceforge.net/
>
> you also provide source code for a library called vista.  There
> is no obvious hint on your page what role this library might play.
> Moreover I would try to avoid such very generic names for a library
> and especially this one which might be covered by another software
> product (but that's another issue ;-)).
>
> Kind regards
>
>         Andreas.