Putting bugsx under group maintenance

[Andreas Tille <tillea@rki.de>]

Hi Marcin,

we try to put any biology related software under control of the
Debian-Med packaging group because the Debian-Med team also takes
care for preclinical research.  In this aspekt the bugsx package
is an interesting candidate for group maintenance.  It might be
that you are aware of the documents but in case you don't know
you might read

   http://debian-med.alioth.debian.org/docs/policy.html

which explains the things we would like to approach.

Your package actually came into my focus because it is listed
as a dependancy of the med-bio package at

   http://debian-med.alioth.debian.org/tasks/bio.php

and states "No homepage available".  This is usually a kind of
a not up to date debian/control file were the homepage tag
is missing or not placed correctly - but in the bugsx case it
is kind of correct.  The only place that might serve as kind of
a homepage might be

   http://www.tucows.com/preview/9082

which at least points to some downloadable archive on a
ftp server.  So what are the things that should be done in my
opinion in the ongoing Debian-Med QA effort:

   1. Move bugsx packaging stuff under
       http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/debian-med/trunk/packages/
      and use
       Debian-Med Packaging Team <debian-med-packaging@lists.alioth.debian.org>
      as maintainer, wile putting yourself as uploader.
   2. Write a friendly e-mail to upstream authors and
      asking them to set up a simple homepage (perhaps even
      on sourceforge or somewhere else which is a sign that
      this project is not completely dead.  Once we are
      contacting upstream we should ask again for clarification
      of the license issue. Perhaps they think about disarming
      their lawyerbomb that was refered the thread
         http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2006/04/msg00222.html

Kind regards and thanks for maintaining bugsx

             Andreas.

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