Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Michael Hanke <michael.hanke@gmail.com> * Package name : caret Version : 5.5 Upstream Author : Washington University School of Medicine * URL : http://brainmap.wustl.edu/caret * License : GPL Programming Lang: C++ Description : Computerized Anatomical Reconstruction and Editing Toolkit This software allows for viewing and manipulating surface reconstructions of the cerebral and cerebellar cortex, viewing volumes and for displaying experimental data on the surfaces and volumes. Caret can download and use stereotaxic atlases (human, monkey, mouse and rat) from an open online database. I already started packaging and discovered some issues which should be solved before the package is suitable for Debian. - Upstream requires registration prior to source download. However this registration is free and provides the users immediately with a password to the password-protected download area. It looks like upstream uses this procedure to maintain some user statistics. I'm going to point them the Debians popcon and ask whether I can include username and password in debian/watch to get uscan working properly. - Two source files contain statements about patented code. It looks like the relevant files were derived from VTK4. The corresponding files in the current VTK5 release do not contain the patent statement anymore, so I guess it has expired. This needs to be clarified. - caret supports MPEG2 export via libvtkMPEG2Encode. While being part of etch this lib has been removed in lenny+ for patent reasons (http://bugs.debian.org/408552). Hence MPEG2 support in caret has to be disabled as well. Additionally caret sources contain MPEG2 headers (e.g. mpeg2enc.h) that have to be removed from the source tarball. A prospective will soon be available. -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (600, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (200, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-4-k7 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash -- GPG key: 1024D/3144BE0F Michael Hanke http://apsy.gse.uni-magdeburg.de/hanke ICQ: 48230050
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