Re: ITK Debian packaging

[Guanglei Xiong <xiongguanglei@tsinghua.org.cn>]

hi Gavin,

  I am sorry that I have not checked out that you have packaged it. But
this is my first time of debian packaging. I package ITK only because I
am using ITK, like it and find there is no official debian packages. I
have no knowledge of how to search and contact previous works on this. I
was not aware of your good job on it. Sorry if it brings you
unhappiness. I hope that your package is available officially soon.

 BTW, I still think packaging and publishing for Debian is free and
accessible for every human being. So does Debian itself. There should be
no restriction that someone has already packaged something, and some
others must not package and publish it. I am not aware whether is
appropriate in Debian. Some people are free to correct me.

Regards,
Guanglei

Gavin Baker wrote::

> Hello all,
>
> I did the original ITP for packaging ITK quite some time ago, and have
> produced several packages since, with a new one on the way.
>
>  http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=184554
>
> The packages were originally available from mentors.debian.net but they had
> a server crash and ended up not hosting binaries because of the bandwidth.
> Since then I've mostly hosted them on my own site.  The packages I've built
> have been announced on the main ITK mailing list, linked from the ITK docs
> and website.
>
> Version 2.2 of ITK has just been released, and I'm about to publish a new
> version of the debs that I've been working on.  The idea is for these to go
> into Debian-Med.
>
> Guanglei, it's a shame you didn't check for ITPs, do a search or contact me
> before going ahead with this.  I've had a look at your debs, and it appears
> it doesn't do much beyond package up a default build/install.  There's a
> number of issues that I've already solved in packaging ITK to conform to the
> Debian standards (altering paths, configuring shared libraries, library
> versioning, configuring bundled libraries, excluding patented code, etc,
> etc).  Also there's CableSwig etc and the Applications bundle.
>
> There's no point duplicating the effort, especially when there's already
> packages out there that people have been using.  Perhaps you can find
> another project that needs packaging?  I'm sure Andreas Tille from
> Debian-Med could suggest some packages that need attention if you wish to
> contribute in this area?
>
>  :: Gavin
>
>
> On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 01:44:53PM +0200, Yannick Patois wrote:
>  
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> > Alexandre Fayolle wrote:
> >    
> >
> > > On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 11:40:18AM +0200, Yannick Patois wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > >      
> > >
> > > > > Someone has prepared some Debian packages for this, recently and
> > > > > announced thme on the debian-mentors mailing list. I don't recall where
> > > > > he posted the packages but it should be easy to find the list archives. 
> > > > >          
> > > > I found this: http://www.cs.mu.oz.au/~gavinb/projects/itk.php (didnt
> > > > found any references to itk from the debian list search engine).
> > > >        
> > > The thread starts at
> > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2005/09/msg00161.html
> > >      
> > There I read: "I have packaged InsightToolkit (www.itk.org) for Debian",
> > on Gavin's page I read "I am the package maintainer of ITK for Debian
> > GNU/Linux.".
> >
> > I hope there have not been duplicated work on that matters.
> >
> > 	Yannick
> >
> >    
>
>  :: Gavin
>
>