Hi, Just to let you know, I have not been using a Debian based system for a good while now, which is why I haven't contributed much to the discussion.
The packages I uploaded were from the pre-cmake days, so you could probably scrap quite a bit of it (Liefeng or someone else already wrote newer build scripts?). At the same time, the maintainer who originally wrote them (Kevin McCarty) did a very nice job, so structure-wise you might want to use it for inspiration. Legal issues is not something I know anything about. To my knowledge, I am still officially the maintainer of our Debian repository at CERN. I would be happy to help out in any way I can so that you can upload more recent versions of Geant4 to the server (and/or other CERN-related packages). This should impose no legal issues whatsoever as far as I am aware. Cheers, Yngve Den 24. jan. 2014 12:36, skrev Christophe Hugon: > Hi, > I relaunch the question of GEANT4. > I tried the repository that you introduced me, but it wasn't > satisfying (not up to date, I had some bug troubles...) > The version 4.10 of Geant is out, so I had to recompile it and I > wasn't satisfy to do it locally on all of my computer and only for > myself. > So I was wondering, since it is not DFSG-conformed due to an > anti-patent clause in the license, isn't its place in the contrib part > of the debian project ? If it is the case, with which contribution > group should I get in contact ? > > An other point, I otfen use this soft > http://sourceforge.net/projects/plotdigitizer/ to get back the data > from plots (mainly from old publications). I find it very useful, it > is under GPLv2 or LGPLv2. I didn't find this packet in the debian > science project. I would like to create it. I could start with this > one first. > > If you have some comments or some advices for a beginner, thanks in > advance. > > Christophe > > > On 04/17/2013 02:14 AM, Lifeng Sun wrote: >> Hi Christophe, >> >> I am the maintainer of geant321. Geant4 is not DFSG-conformed due to >> an anti-patent clause in the license so we cannot maintain it as a >> Debian official package [1]. >> >> However, Yngve Inntjore Levinsen (CC'ed) maintains an unofficial >> Debian package of Geant4 in CERN [2], but it's quite a long time since >> the last update. The packaging stuff is hosted on [3]. >> >> >> [1] http://wiki.debian.org/DebianScience/Geant4 >> [2] http://lcg-heppkg.web.cern.ch/lcg-heppkg/debian/ >> [3] >> http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=debian-science/packages/geant4.git >> >> >> Welcome, >> Lifeng >> >> >> On 15:18 Tue 04/16/13 Apr , Christophe Hugon wrote: >>> Hello, >>> >>> I'm very interested in debian since few years, in a good part because >>> the science packages are not bad. But I think that it should even >>> better with the geant4 package. I don't know why, geant3 is in >>> packages since years. >>> Maybe I can start contributions for packaging by that (I'm >>> physicist), but I don't know how to enter in contact with science >>> maintainers, and how to start. >>> >>> Regards >>> >>> Christophe >>> >>> >>> -- >>> To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] >>> with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact >>> [email protected] >>> Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected] > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
