Re: dcmtk-snapshot

["Mathieu Malaterre" <mathieu.malaterre@gmail.com>]

On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 6:09 PM, Michael Banck <mbanck@debian.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 06:03:57PM +0100, Mathieu Malaterre wrote:
>> Hi there,
>>
>>   just like there is a gcc-snapshot package, I would like to add a
>> dcmtk-snapshot package to have a way to retrieve the snapshot package
>> of dcmtk:
>>
>> ftp://dicom.offis.de/pub/dicom/offis/software/dcmtk/snapshot/
>>
>>   Does this seems reasonable ?
>
> The impact of bugs etc. in a development snapshot of the C compiler is
> paramount to the distribution, that is why there is a gcc-snapshot
> package.  The reason for the different binary package is so that people
> can still have a stable compiler installed and test the development
> version.
>
> Is this the case for dcmtk as well?

I am not too familiar with dcmtk internal. What if they introduce some
kind of backward incompatibility. I would think people would like to
keep a stable release around, while use the snapshot when
decompression went wrong and corrupted there data. See
gdcmConformanceStatement for a list of possible corruption:

http://apps.sourceforge.net/mediawiki/gdcm/index.php?title=General_questions#What_is_gdcmConformanceTests_.3F

> Maybe you can consider uploading snapshots of the dcmtk development
> repository to experimental instead, without introducing a new package.

Is this documented somewhere ? I'll talk to the dcmtk folks to see
what are there opinion.

Thanks

-- 
Mathieu