Rejection of Orthanc

[Sébastien Jodogne <s.jodogne@orthanc-labs.com>]

Dear all,

I take the liberty of relaying the message below to the main Debian Med
mailing list.

As I can understand, the "orthanc" package was rejected yesterday by the
FTP master because of the presence of the source of 3 third-party
JavaScript components that are not packaged in Debian yet (namely,
Date.js, jQuery and jQuery Mobile), as well as the presence of the
source code of civetweb:
https://salsa.debian.org/med-team/orthanc/-/tree/master/debian/JS
https://salsa.debian.org/med-team/orthanc/-/tree/master/debian/ThirdPartyDownloads

There is no licensing issue here. The JavaScript components have been
present in the source of the "orthanc" package for more than 4 years,
and Orthanc embedded interface only works with jQuery Mobile version
1.1.0 (yes, this will obviously be the subject of criticism, but this
interface was developed in 2011). The dependency on mongoose, then on
civetweb has also been present since the origin of the package back in 2012.

This is a message to beg for help on this topic. I don't have the time
to do more Debian packaging, besides maintaining the packages of the
Orthanc core and official plugins.

Is there anyone willing to provide help? Otherwise, I fear I'll have to
orphan all this 8-year-long work on Orthanc.

I thank you in advance,
Sébastien-



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Subject: 	Re: [Debian-med-packaging] orthanc_1.7.2+dfsg-2_amd64.changes
REJECTED
Date: 	Sun, 13 Sep 2020 19:28:29 +0200
From: 	Sébastien Jodogne <s.jodogne@gmail.com>
To: 	Thorsten Alteholz <ftpmaster@ftp-master.debian.org>
CC: 	Andreas (Debian) <tille@debian.org>, Debian Med Packaging Team
<debian-med-packaging@lists.alioth.debian.org>



Hello Thorsten,

I'm sorry, but I do not understand this rejection. The only NEW
subpackages are related to the shared library for the Orthanc plugins,
and this rejection blocks any further development of Orthanc in Debian.
This is completely disheartening to me, given the full weeks I've been
spending on Debian packaging.

Please could you someone help and provide assistance? I am not able to
package yet new packages, as I am also the upstream developer of
Orthanc, that is by itself a very large ecosystem.

I do my best to try and provide useful packages related to free software
for healthcare in these COVID times (Orthanc is notably used to handle
CT scans of the lungs), but all these rejections since May seem to
indicate that I'm definitely too stupid to be part of the Debian community. 

Thanks in advance,
Sébastien-


Le dim. 13 sept. 2020 à 19:00, Thorsten Alteholz
<ftpmaster@ftp-master.debian.org
<mailto:ftpmaster@ftp-master.debian.org>> a écrit :


    Hi Sebastien,

    please don't hide software in debian/* but create separate source
    packages instead.

    Thanks!
     Thorsten




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