Hi Tony, On Mon, Jul 01, 2019 at 02:40:31PM +0100, Tony Travis wrote: > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: David Hancoc [mailto:[email protected]] > > > Sent: 01 July 2019 14:07 > > > To: Timms-Wilson, Tracey <[email protected]>; Timms-Wilson, Tracey > > > <[email protected]> > > > Subject: New contact form received > > > > > > You have received a new contact form message. > > > Name : David Hancock > > > Email : [email protected] > > > Message : Hello, > > > > > > Some researchers have been in touch with me. They are trying to cite > > > maxdView - software that we used to host. > > > > > > They still use vintage versions of it, but are wondering how to cite it > > > properlty. > > > Specifically so that other people can use it. > > > > > > The download packge is still bundled into BioLinux, but the stand-alone > > > download pages, previously hosted by CEH, have disappeared. > > > > > > Any chance that this can be re-instated? > > Hi, David. > > Tracey forwarded your email to me because I'm last-man-standing on the > Bio-Linux project, which is now effectively abandoned by NERC/EOS and > Bio-Linux 8 is no longer supported either by NERC/EOS, or by me... > > During the Bio-Linux project, we collaborated a lot with the Debian-Med > team, who ported many of the most useful packages from Bio-Linux to > Debian-Med.
To be a bit picky about wording: The Debian Med team has packaged lots of the software for main Debian that used to be provided by Bio-Linux. While I remember that Bio-Linux members like Tim Booth contributed code to Debian Med I do not remember that I was able to drain a source package from Bio-Linux and "port" this into a Debian package since it seems there were no such source packages available that would rectify the word "porting". > Indeed, our strategy has been to avoid using the 'orphaned' NERC > repositories that we no longer have access to update or modify. > > I attended the 2019 Debian-Med Sprint in Vilnius earlier this year and > presented my ideas about continuing development of Bio-Linux 9 within the > Debian-Med project. The Debian-Med team have been very supportive: > > > https://wiki.debian.org/Sprints/2019/DebianMed2019 > > > I've CC'ed your email to the Bio-Linux and Debian-Med mailing lists in case > anyone is willing to volunteer to update the existing Bio-Linux 8 "maxdView" > package and make it available for Debian/Ubuntu in "med-bio". > > Please post a message about the development and future of "maxdView". Tony, I've added an entry to the "missing in Bio-Linux" list[1] (thanks to Carnë Draug for the pointer to the webarchive). If there is any software requested by Bio-Linux users pretty please maintain this list. Random mails to our mailing list are not at all a safe way to get anything packaged. The technical way to ask for packaging is filing an "RFP" bug report - but we agreed upon the list[1] to lower the barrier. However, I wonder how much promising it will be to ask for software which has no maintained web page any more, the web archive change is from 2007 and there is no visible source code. I'd support anybody who wants to give the packaging of it a try but I'll spend my time rather on more promising code. Kind regards Andreas. [1] https://salsa.debian.org/med-team/community/bio-linux/commit/55e401ec973fb208ffd8bb5a62f8cb419c918b04 -- http://fam-tille.de
