On Sun, Sep 04, 2011 at 09:18:08PM +0200, Karolina Kalic wrote: > On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 18:49, Andreas Tille <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Sun, Sep 04, 2011 at 04:55:31PM +0200, Steffen Möller wrote: > >> On 09/04/2011 04:19 PM, Michael Banck wrote: > >> > On Sun, Sep 04, 2011 at 12:23:04PM +0200, Steffen Möller wrote: > >> >> for packaging > >> >> http://kinemage.biochem.duke.edu/software/reduce.php > >> >> would be most welcome. > > Should we really be interested for something that is 3 years old? I > just want to know about policy of Debian Med for this? I think that we > shouldn't keep software that is dead upstream in Debian, except for > some dependency reason. But, that is just my opinion, correct me if > I'm wrong.
Well, some scientific programs might just be "finished" and need no further changes, so just because it has not been further developped doesn't mean it shouldn't go in. That said, I know not enough about reduce to say whether this is the case or if it would need major attention by the Debian maintainer, essentially forking it. Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
