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Re: would it be possible to reinstantiate openmeeg and ants in wheezy?



any feedback would be welcome

Cheers,

On Thu, 05 Jul 2012, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote:

> Hi Release Team,

> 2 packages of mine, primarily due to demanding resources for build (c++
> with heavy use of templating) and testing (I do prefer to do build-time
> testing and they use realistic data) always were somewhat
> problematic to be built across architectures; thus they were removed
> from wheezy (while in testing) whenever new FTBFS were detected.  Both
> are highly specialized to the field of neuroimaging.  Both are old
> versions (see below) but relatively popular as for a specialized
> software.

> ants 
> ----
> Slightly updated snapshot version than then one in squeeze

> Fresh upstream version requires fresh ITK (in experimental)

> popcon ~100

> FTBFS atm on  mips, mipsel, s390   imho due to insufficient resources
>    and might be tricky to make them build reliably


> openmeeg 
> --------
> The same upstream version as in squeeze -- minor additional patching (gcc 4.7) + enabled build time unittests

> Fresh upstream requires fresh libmat (in experimental)

> popcon ~200

> FTBFS atm on mips only, and could be resolved simply through
> disabling build time unittesting 


> I wondered, than even if I manage to overcome FTBFS on those  -- would
> they be allowed to come back to wheezy?

> Thanks in advance
-- 
Yaroslav O. Halchenko
Postdoctoral Fellow,   Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences
Dartmouth College, 419 Moore Hall, Hinman Box 6207, Hanover, NH 03755
Phone: +1 (603) 646-9834                       Fax: +1 (603) 646-1419
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