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Re: Bug#793392: ITP: dcmtkpp -- Wrappers around DCMTK to have an easier API



Hi Andreas

Le 24/07/2015 18:21, Andreas Tille a écrit :
> Hi Julien,
> 
> On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 06:09:10PM +0200, Julien Lamy wrote:
>> Would you agree with the following modifications?
>>
>> Short description: C++ wrapper library for DCMTK (DICOM toolkit)
>>
>> Long description:
>> DCMTK++ is a wrapper library for DCMTK, a toolkit handling the DICOM
>> medical imaging standard. DCMTK++ leverages C++ constructs to provide a
>> more user-friendly API, notably for the networking part. Included in
>> DCMTK++ are exception-based error handling, generic access to datasets
>> elements, standard JSON representation of datasets, and generic
>> implementation of messages, clients and servers for the various DICOM
>> protocols.
>>
>> Other relevant information:
>> Compared to the two main free-software C++ DICOM toolkits (DCMTK and
>> GDCM), DCMTK++ provides either additional features (generic
>> implementation of DICOM servers, missing from GDCM) and a modern C++ API
>> (missing from DCMTK). We think that developers of DICOM application
>> would benefit from DCMTK++, in term of code readability and ease of
> 
> If you intend to include the second paragraph in the long description
> as well, please drop the "Other relevant information:" and replace the
> "We think" by some phrasing that does not use first person (lintian
> would tell you anyway ;-)).  Alternatively you could add the second
> paragraph to a README.Debian (according to your preference).

That second paragraph was more of a reply to the concerns raised on the
ITP than part of the package description. Nonetheless, I'll try to
rewrite it for a README.Debian so that Lintian does not complain. Is
there anything that this tool doesn't see? :-)

Best,
-- 
Julien

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