Re: Status of jai-imageio-core
Andreas,
On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 9:55 AM, Andreas Tille <andreas@an3as.eu> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 02:21:21PM +0200, Mathieu Malaterre wrote:
>> http://mentors.debian.net/package/jai-core
>
> I have builded this package successfully. It has a lintian warning
> about wrong DEP5 syntax which probably should be fixed. Regarding the
will do, thanks.
> license content you mentioned that it is non-free anyway (no commercial
> use). The fact that even the source is non-free might lead to the
> decision to not care for the availabillity of providing the source for
> the binary mlibwrapper stuff, right?
There is no source for mlibwrapper AFAIK.
> While this is no real restriction
> license wise it restricts the use of the package to only two
> architectures (i386 and amd64) which is a bit sad. Do you see any chance
> to obtain the source code also for mlibwrapper_jai?
I did fill a bug report for that: http://java.net/jira/browse/JAI_CORE-151
> BTW, lintian informs about a missing watch file. Do you think it would
> make sense writing? Hint: In jam-lib package I tried a watch file
> which reports new SVN commits - perhaps this is somehow applicable, but
> I'll leave the decision to you.
The project seems dead upstream. But anyway if it ever resurrect the
script might come handy.
> Did you contacted debian-java or was the effort to sponsor the package
> stalled why I was on vacation?
Technically this is one of those package inspected during my NM
process. But no-one from deb-java (except AM) did volunteer so far to
have a look at it.
>> http://mentors.debian.net/package/jai-imageio-core
>
> I will check once jai-core checks are finished.
>
>> If someone could test them on x86, that would be great !
>
> This question remains open.
>
> Kind regards and many thanks for working on this because it is a
> precondition for several other very interesting medical imaging stuff
> written in Java
--
Mathieu
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