On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 9:30 PM, Yaroslav Halchenko <deb...@onerussian.com> wrote: > > On Mon, 14 Oct 2013, Andreas Tille wrote: >> > - there are few subprojects listed in >> > http://debian-med.alioth.debian.org/tasks/imaging >> > with some packaging specified as available > >> svn://svn.debian.org/debian-med/trunk/packages/dcm4che/dcm4che-core/trunk/ > > cool -- thanks! > >> > - not a single ITP filed > >> I for myself established the workflow to issue an ITP only of I really >> *know* that I will be able to finish the packaging. > > well -- I usually do the opposite so to avoid unlikely but possible > duplication of effort and simplifying search for thinking-alike ;) > But oh well -- that is just my "approach" ;) > > >> > - last activity on the debian-med list was in 2012 >> > http://lists.debian.org/debian-med/2012/03/msg00227.html > >> I guess this is really the last news. I never made it through the maven >> jungle. > > yeah -- scares me as well... but I have heard that maven builds support > improves slowly but steadily -- so might be better now > > >> > so if someone could summarize on the current status and possibly hurdles >> > that would be great. > >> The first stumbling stone when I started with dcm4che-core was a lacking >> jai-imageio. This is solved in non-free (and chances that this will >> become free are close to zero if I have understood the issue correctly). >> So dcm4che will propagate to contrib at best. If I remember right than >> several other preconditions will be needed. > > and that is only because of JPEG2000 or generic dependency? (I meant may > be there could be a cut-down 'main' build)?
Both lossless JPEG and JPEG 2000 are provided in these non-free libs. Those two codecs are extremely important in the clinical world as DICOM tends to be compressed these days. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-med-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/ca+7wusyflpfmqjfvkhsvdn_jdj7nrd5npzwlvse-84nij6a...@mail.gmail.com
