Greetings and Salutations Debian Friends, I have been doing some bioinformatic research for several years and had the need to understand the "NEXUS" biological scientific data file format in my program. In trying to find a good library, I stumbled across the devilishly named NeXus library for neutron and X-Ray data. I thought this radioactive stuff was just another "block type" in the rather extensible NEXUS file format, but alas it turns out it was just a collision of names and the two libraries have "nothing" in common .. except the names, and the fact that they are both scientific data file formats. I confess it might have been more prudent to pay more attention to the README before doing the packaging .. but it is an error with a happy ending I suspect.
Therefore, I suggest that one of the two nexus file format libraries undergo a renaming. I would also like to offer up my packages for adoption by somebody who would actually know how to test them better than I would. I have my packages available at [1] and I have already filed an ITP. I also had to make another version of mxml but it's not supposed to become official it's just to get the libnexus package building/working ok. There are a few lintian warnings due to manpages that are not yet written and some wrong rpath settings. Other than that the packge seems to be "fair" quality but still could use a little improvement before uploading to the archive in my opinion. Best regards, Rudi [1] http://cilibrar.com/~cilibrar/projsup/nex4/ -- Democracy is two wolves and a sheep deciding what to eat for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
