2015-07-08 15:25 GMT+02:00 Andreas Tille <[email protected]>:

> Hi Corentin,
>

Hi Andreas


>
> On Wed, Jul 08, 2015 at 02:36:11PM +0200, Corentin Desfarges wrote:
> > According the fw4spl tracker [1], it sounds to me that the main problem
> of
> > fw4spl (excepting the ARM support) is the fail of the build of its
> > dependences, especially avifile and activiz.net (gdcm and ITK depend on
> > activiz.net and vxl depends on avifile).
> >
> > So, I suppose that if avifile and activiz.net are fixed, the problem
> will
> > be fixed ? Am I right ?
>
> Yes, we need to fix activiz.net.
>
> > And if avifile seems have been fixed [2] (am I wrong about it ?),
>
> It seems so.


> > activiz.net seems not maintained anymore.
>
> Unfortunately this is true as well.  The package was introduced by
> Mathieu Malaterre but Mathieu unfortunately left our team[3]
>
> > I want to try to fix it, but I can't found it on Alioth. How can I work
> on
> > this package ?
>
> In general you find the place where a package is maintained via
>
>    apt-cache showsrc activiz.net | grep ^Vcs
>
> So its in Debian Med SVN and may be this is the reason why you did not
> found it since you are checking only SVN, right?  I think you will
> welcome if the package would be moved to Git, right?
>

Yes indeed.


>
> I think the package needs some update since it is lagging behind
> upstream anyway[4].  Moving to vtk 6.1 seems to be a sensible thing and
> if we are realy lucky the bug in question might go away by this simple
> upgrade.
>

It could be a great thing.


> So I'll do the following:
>
>    1. Move the package from SVN to Git
>    2. Add you as Uploaders
>    3. Ping you for further work on the package once this is done
>

Ok, I'm waiting.


>
> Is this OK for you?  I'm sorry that I personally do not have any
> knowledge about this and the related packages so if things exceed normal
> packaging I'm not of much help.
>

There is no problem! I also don't know how it works, but I think I have
probably more time to work on it.


> Kind regards
>
>       Andreas.
>
> > [1] https://packages.qa.debian.org/f/fw4spl.html
> > [2] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=777790
> [3] https://lists.debian.org/debian-med/2014/12/msg00105.html
> [4] http://public.kitware.com/gitweb?p=activizdotnet.git
>

Best regards,

Corentin

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