Bug#619388: ITP: cernlib -- CERNLIB data analysis suite

[Pau Garcia i Quiles <pgquiles@elpauer.org>]

On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 2:57 PM, Lifeng Sun <lifongsun@gmail.com> wrote:
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
> Owner: Lifeng Sun <lifongsun@gmail.com>
>
> * Package name    : cernlib
>  Version         : 2006
>  Upstream Author : CERN - European Laboratory for Particle Physics
> * URL             : http://cernlib.web.cern.ch/cernlib/
> * License         : GPL-2+
>  Programming Lang: Fortran, C
>  Description     : CERNLIB data analysis suite
>
> CERNLIB is a suite of data analysis tools and libraries created for
> use in physics experiments, but also with applications to other fields
> such as the biological sciences.

Apparently development on cernlib was stopped in 2000:

http://cernlib.web.cern.ch/cernlib/news/future.html

Has that decision been revoked? It there is no further development, I
wonder whether it makes sense to have cernlib in Debian :-?

-- 
Pau Garcia i Quiles
http://www.elpauer.org
(Due to my workload, I may need 10 days to answer)