Hi Marcin, we try to put any biology related software under control of the Debian-Med packaging group because the Debian-Med team also takes care for preclinical research. In this aspekt the bugsx package is an interesting candidate for group maintenance. It might be that you are aware of the documents but in case you don't know you might read
http://debian-med.alioth.debian.org/docs/policy.html which explains the things we would like to approach. Your package actually came into my focus because it is listed as a dependancy of the med-bio package at http://debian-med.alioth.debian.org/tasks/bio.php and states "No homepage available". This is usually a kind of a not up to date debian/control file were the homepage tag is missing or not placed correctly - but in the bugsx case it is kind of correct. The only place that might serve as kind of a homepage might be http://www.tucows.com/preview/9082 which at least points to some downloadable archive on a ftp server. So what are the things that should be done in my opinion in the ongoing Debian-Med QA effort: 1. Move bugsx packaging stuff under http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/debian-med/trunk/packages/ and use Debian-Med Packaging Team <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> as maintainer, wile putting yourself as uploader. 2. Write a friendly e-mail to upstream authors and asking them to set up a simple homepage (perhaps even on sourceforge or somewhere else which is a sign that this project is not completely dead. Once we are contacting upstream we should ask again for clarification of the license issue. Perhaps they think about disarming their lawyerbomb that was refered the thread http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2006/04/msg00222.html Kind regards and thanks for maintaining bugsx Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
