On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 6:09 PM, Michael Banck <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 06:03:57PM +0100, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: >> Hi there, >> >> just like there is a gcc-snapshot package, I would like to add a >> dcmtk-snapshot package to have a way to retrieve the snapshot package >> of dcmtk: >> >> ftp://dicom.offis.de/pub/dicom/offis/software/dcmtk/snapshot/ >> >> Does this seems reasonable ? > > The impact of bugs etc. in a development snapshot of the C compiler is > paramount to the distribution, that is why there is a gcc-snapshot > package. The reason for the different binary package is so that people > can still have a stable compiler installed and test the development > version. > > Is this the case for dcmtk as well?
I am not too familiar with dcmtk internal. What if they introduce some kind of backward incompatibility. I would think people would like to keep a stable release around, while use the snapshot when decompression went wrong and corrupted there data. See gdcmConformanceStatement for a list of possible corruption: http://apps.sourceforge.net/mediawiki/gdcm/index.php?title=General_questions#What_is_gdcmConformanceTests_.3F > Maybe you can consider uploading snapshots of the dcmtk development > repository to experimental instead, without introducing a new package. Is this documented somewhere ? I'll talk to the dcmtk folks to see what are there opinion. Thanks -- Mathieu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
