Bug#619388: ITP: cernlib -- CERNLIB data analysis suite
Hi, On 23:22 Fri 03/25/11 Mar , Pau Garcia i Quiles wrote: > 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 Has that decision been revoked?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 :-? Thank you for comments. Technically, this decision was revoked, and the upstream continued the development, though moribundly, until 2006. Since 2002, the former Debian maintainer of these packages, Kevin B. McCarty, also played a role of substitute upstream author and kept them operational until he retired from Debian in the end of 2009. My co-maintainer, Bastien Roucaries, and myself will follow Kevin's work, and are planning to fork a free version of CERNLIB, as I mentioned in this thread. Kind regards, - Lifeng -- signature.asc Description: GnuPG digital signature
Bug#619388: ITP: cernlib -- CERNLIB data analysis suite
On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 2:57 PM, Lifeng Sun wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Lifeng Sun > > * 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development on cernlib was stopped in 2000: http://cernlib.web.cern.ch/cernlib/news/future.html Has that decision been revoked?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) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-wnpp-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/aanlktimo9ucorsr3tdseopanneyper9+dhxeec61q...@mail.gmail.com
Bug#619388: ITP: cernlib -- CERNLIB data analysis suite
Hi, On 08:57 Thu 03/24/11 Mar , Joerg Jaspert wrote: > That is, when you want to maintain this package, have you considered > this? Are you prepared to take over the full maintenance of it? If you > just want to stick it into Debian as it is/was, so it becomes bitrot > here, that wouldnt be a good thing. If you DO want to maintain it fully, > and want to address the problems it seems to have, fine. Thank you for comments. I am well aware of these threads. Certainly I intend to take over the full maintenance, and we are planning to fork a free version from the upstream and continue the development of CERNLIB to keep it operational on other distribution and OS. Kind regards, - Lifeng -- signature.asc Description: GnuPG digital signature
Bug#619388: ITP: cernlib -- CERNLIB data analysis suite
> * 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. This package just got removed from Debian. In the bug log for it, which you can read at http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=508413 you can read that --88--- 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. --8 8--- and then it was orphaned for a LONG time. And it links to http://lists.debian.org/debian-science/2008/09/msg00028.html which from a quick glance does not look like its maintainable code. That is, when you want to maintain this package, have you considered this? Are you prepared to take over the full maintenance of it? If you just want to stick it into Debian as it is/was, so it becomes bitrot here, that wouldnt be a good thing. If you DO want to maintain it fully, and want to address the problems it seems to have, fine. -- bye, Joerg Ubuntu: An ancient african word meaning "I can't configure Debian" -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-wnpp-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87pqphhrxn@delenn.ganneff.de
Bug#619388: ITP: cernlib -- CERNLIB data analysis suite
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Lifeng Sun * 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. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-wnpp-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110323135757.6766.59895.reportbug@localhost
