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Bug#325305: Unofficial packages of ROOT and Geant 4



tags 325306 + pending
thanks

Hi,

Obviously this doesn't close these bugs, but I wanted to alert the
bug submitter (and anyone else looking at these RFPs) that there
are unofficial Debian packages of both ROOT and Geant 4, reported
in the January '06 archive of the debian-science mailing list:

http://lists.debian.org/debian-science/2006/01/

(By the way, if you are a scientist running Debian, I highly
recommend subscribing to debian-science.)

The ROOT package should be uploaded into "main" within a few
months; its license issues went away because upstream
relicensed it under the LGPL.  For the Geant 4 package, it's currently
only available in source form due to license ambiguities -- I'm waiting
for a clarification from one of the Geant 4 collaboration members.  It
also depends upon CLHEP which may have license problems of
its own.

Apologies if the formatting of this email is messed up -- I am writing
from a crummy web interface.

regards,

-- 
Kevin B. McCarty <kmccarty@princeton.edu>   Physics Department
WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/    Princeton University
GPG: public key ID 4F83C751                 Princeton, NJ 08544




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