Saint for Debian
Hi Hyungwon,
the Debian Med project[1] tries to make Debian the best distribution for
medical care and microbiologic research. To approach this we try to
package any relevant software for inclusion into official Debian and we
have quite a set of programs in the field of biology[2].
I became aware of SAINT and would like to package it for Debian as well.
I downloaded the tarball from sourceforge[3] and realised two show
stoppers to do so:
1. I did not found any licensing statement neither inside the code
itself nor any specification on the web site. This is a no go
for Debian. Could you please add some license statement, preferably
inside the downloadable archive?
2. You are shipping a PDF manual inside the Zip archive (unfortunately
in the root of the unpacking dir = "dirty tarball", but that's not
the main problem. If we want to include this PDF inside the Debian
package (which would be a good thing for our users) the Debian
ftpmasters will require the LaTeX source which was used to build
this PDF (provided that it also is covered by a free license - see
above). Could you include this as well?
Finally I have a patch for the clean target of your Makefile which
ensures that clean can be called even in the just unpackages tarball.
The patch is quite simple and can be viewed in our SVN[4].
Kind regards
Andreas.
[1] http://www.debian.org
[2] http://debian-med.alioth.debian.org/tasks/bio
[3] http://sourceforge.net/projects/saint-apms/files/
[4] http://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/debian-med/trunk/packages/saint/trunk/debian/patches/fix-makefile.patch?revision=10571&view=markup
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