Re: any volunteer for packaging "reduce" ?
On Sun, Sep 04, 2011 at 09:18:08PM +0200, Karolina Kalic wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 18:49, Andreas Tille <andreas@an3as.eu> wrote:
> > On Sun, Sep 04, 2011 at 04:55:31PM +0200, Steffen Möller wrote:
> >> On 09/04/2011 04:19 PM, Michael Banck wrote:
> >> > On Sun, Sep 04, 2011 at 12:23:04PM +0200, Steffen Möller wrote:
> >> >> for packaging
> >> >> http://kinemage.biochem.duke.edu/software/reduce.php
> >> >> would be most welcome.
>
> Should we really be interested for something that is 3 years old? I
> just want to know about policy of Debian Med for this? I think that we
> shouldn't keep software that is dead upstream in Debian, except for
> some dependency reason. But, that is just my opinion, correct me if
> I'm wrong.
Well, some scientific programs might just be "finished" and need no
further changes, so just because it has not been further developped
doesn't mean it shouldn't go in.
That said, I know not enough about reduce to say whether this is the
case or if it would need major attention by the Debian maintainer,
essentially forking it.
Michael
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