RFA: cernlib -- CERNLIB data analysis suite
Hello debian-science,
I intended this RFA of CERNLIB to be CC'ed to the list, but apparently
the BTS ignores all but the first X-Debbugs-CC header. Anyway, here
it is (you can also find it at #508413; see below for bug numbers for
the RFAs for the other CERNLIB-related packages I am putting up for
adoption: paw, cfortran, geant321, mn-fit, mclibs).
I intended to submit this RFA a while ago and was finally prodded into
action by the discussion on debian-devel over libgtk1.2.
As previously mentioned on debian-science at [1], I am not interested in
maintaining CERNLIB and related software into the indefinite future.
Its upstream is dead and it is questionable whether it will even be
possible to keep it operational or even compilable as the build tools
and infrastructure of Debian continue to evolve. Please refer to [1]
for details if you are interested in taking over the package.
[1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-science/2008/09/msg00028.html
As an update to that email, I received one offer of help (by private
email) on September 15, a week after my posting to debian-science, but I
did not hear any more from this person after I replied to that email.
As promised, I will continue to do as best I can with limited time to
maintain CERNLIB and friends through the release of Squeeze. Hence this
bug is only a request for adoption for now. If no one else takes over
the package by the Squeeze release, I will request its removal from Sid
immediately afterwards as "no longer maintainable", and Debian users
will have until the end of Squeeze security support (most likely 6 to 12
months after the release of Squeeze + 1) to migrate to other software.
I'll take this opportunity to suggest ROOT (Debian package "root-system").
CERNLIB (PAW, GEANT 3.21, Monte Carlo library) users should consider
this email their first warning. As far as I know, Debian and Fedora are
the only organizations left that offer any sort of "official" support
whatsoever for CERNLIB.
Complete list of CERNLIB-related RFAs:
Please do not adopt one of these packages unless you are also willing
to adopt all of its direct and indirect dependencies in the following
list, and please read [1] THOROUGHLY before doing so.
"->" == depends upon:
mn-fit -> paw
geant321 -> paw
paw -> cernlib
mclibs -> cernlib
cernlib -> cfortran
RFA bugs are at:
cernlib: http://bugs.debian.org/508413
paw: http://bugs.debian.org/508495
geant321: http://bugs.debian.org/508496
mclibs: http://bugs.debian.org/508498
cfortran: http://bugs.debian.org/508500
mn-fit: http://bugs.debian.org/508501
best regards,
--
Kevin B. McCarty <kmccarty@gmail.com>
WWW: http://www.starplot.org/
WWW: http://people.debian.org/~kmccarty/
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