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Re: dcmtk uploaded to exp (was Re: dcmtk 3.6.0 progress)



Mathieu,

Sorry for missing your points, I'll fix that ASAP and keep up updated.
BTW, dcmtk has been uploaded to experimental, so my package on
mentors has been removed.

today, I checked the version 3.6.0-2 of the Debian package. Looks good to me, apart from one details in the "dcmtk.README.Debian" file. As far as I understand the first two paragraphs of the section on "Debian specific notes", they are not correct anymore:

=== CUT ===

Debian specific notes:

The upstream sources are not packaging friendly in terms of the Unix Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (see e.g. http://www.pathname.com/fhs/). There is currently no straightforward way to install DCMTK in compliance with the FHS without kludging the build scripts in some way.

Thus, the Debian DCMTK source package includes a number of patches to change the semantics of the --libdir and --datadir configure options in order to separate read-only architecture-independent data (e.g. the dicom.dic DICOM dictionary) from architecture-dependent object libraries.
For backward compatibility, the original (i.e. violating FSH) behavior is
preserved in case ./configure is invoked without --prefix option.

=== CUT ===

I could also not find such patches in your package (probably, since they are not needed any longer :-).

Btw, you should probably also update the "signature line" at the end of the "dcmtk.README.Debian" file.

Regards,
Jörg Riesmeier



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