Hello debian-science, I intended this RFA of CERNLIB to be CC'ed to the list, but apparently the BTS ignores all but the first X-Debbugs-CC header. Anyway, here it is (you can also find it at #508413; see below for bug numbers for the RFAs for the other CERNLIB-related packages I am putting up for adoption: paw, cfortran, geant321, mn-fit, mclibs).
I intended to submit this RFA a while ago and was finally prodded into action by the discussion on debian-devel over libgtk1.2. As previously mentioned on debian-science at [1], I am not interested in maintaining CERNLIB and related software into the indefinite future. 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. Please refer to [1] for details if you are interested in taking over the package. [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-science/2008/09/msg00028.html As an update to that email, I received one offer of help (by private email) on September 15, a week after my posting to debian-science, but I did not hear any more from this person after I replied to that email. As promised, I will continue to do as best I can with limited time to maintain CERNLIB and friends through the release of Squeeze. Hence this bug is only a request for adoption for now. If no one else takes over the package by the Squeeze release, I will request its removal from Sid immediately afterwards as "no longer maintainable", and Debian users will have until the end of Squeeze security support (most likely 6 to 12 months after the release of Squeeze + 1) to migrate to other software. I'll take this opportunity to suggest ROOT (Debian package "root-system"). CERNLIB (PAW, GEANT 3.21, Monte Carlo library) users should consider this email their first warning. As far as I know, Debian and Fedora are the only organizations left that offer any sort of "official" support whatsoever for CERNLIB. Complete list of CERNLIB-related RFAs: Please do not adopt one of these packages unless you are also willing to adopt all of its direct and indirect dependencies in the following list, and please read [1] THOROUGHLY before doing so. "->" == depends upon: mn-fit -> paw geant321 -> paw paw -> cernlib mclibs -> cernlib cernlib -> cfortran RFA bugs are at: cernlib: http://bugs.debian.org/508413 paw: http://bugs.debian.org/508495 geant321: http://bugs.debian.org/508496 mclibs: http://bugs.debian.org/508498 cfortran: http://bugs.debian.org/508500 mn-fit: http://bugs.debian.org/508501 best regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <kmcca...@gmail.com> WWW: http://www.starplot.org/ WWW: http://people.debian.org/~kmccarty/ GPG: public key ID 4F83C751
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